Religion and the specter of the West: Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation
Arvind-pal S. Mandair
Religion and the specter of the West: Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation
المؤلف
Arvind-pal S. Mandairطبع 1
قائمة
شناسنامه
العنوان واسم المؤلف
Religion and the specter of the West: Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation / Arvind-pal S. Mandairبيانات النشر
نیویورک : Columbia University Press، 2016مالمواصفات الشكلية
xviii, 516 p.; 24 cm.الموضوع
Sikhism and politics -- India -- HistoryTranslating and interpreting -- Political aspects --India -- History
Religions -- History -- India
Religion -- Philosophy
مسلسل
(Insurrections؛ )اللغة
انگلیسیIncludes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references.
Index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Index.
المحتويات
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory