Imagined Hinduism : British Protestant missionary constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900 / Geoffrey A. Oddie.

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Oddie, Geoffrey A, 1932-

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TextPublication details: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9788132109211
813210921X
1283422166
9781283422161

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagined Hinduism.DDC classification:

294.507/041 22

LOC classification:

BV2420 .O33 2006eb

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BE 8039

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Contents:

1. Hinduism in travel and missionary accounts, 1600-1800 -- 2. Hinduism as represented by Protestant friends of mission in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- 3. Orientalist models and missionary scholarship -- 4. Hinduism in missionary education and training -- 5. The emergence of a dominant paradigm -- William Carey : a pioneer's journey of exploration -- William Ward's History -- 6. The guardians -- consolidating the paradigm : Duff, Mundy and others -- 7. Hinduism in missionary society periodical literature -- 8. A changing context : some general developments affecting missionary perceptions of Hinduism, 1850-1900 -- 9. Critics and commentators on the dominant view, 1850-1900 -- 10. Empathy or otherness? : changing evaluations of Hinduism in the nineteenth century -- 11. Gender issues in the construction of Hinduism with special reference to the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 1880-1900.

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Summary: This important book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the missionaries' construction of Hinduism grew out of their own roots in post-Enlightenment Europe, their Christian conception of religion, the colonial reality of India, and their need to 'know the enemy' in order to spread Christianity more effectively. Drawing upon missionary writings, Geoffrey Oddie shows how the early view of Hinduism as pagan or heathen settled into.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-364) and index.

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This important book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the missionaries' construction of Hinduism grew out of their own roots in post-Enlightenment Europe, their Christian conception of religion, the colonial reality of India, and their need to 'know the enemy' in order to spread Christianity more effectively. Drawing upon missionary writings, Geoffrey Oddie shows how the early view of Hinduism as pagan or heathen settled into.

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