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Imperial encounters : religion and modernity in India and Britain
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- Creator
- Peter van der Veer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- x, 205 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 069107478X, 9781400831081, 1400831083, 0691074771, 9780691074788, 9780691074771
- OCLC
- on1160209123, ocm46831146, on1175629984
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
- Introduction -- Secularity and religion. The separation of church and state ; Religion ; Concluding remarks -- The moral state: religion, nation, and empire. The moral state in Britain ; The Colonial Mission in India ; Concluding remarks -- The spirits of the age: spiritualism and political radicalism. British spirits ; India's spiritual heritage ; Concluding remarks -- Moral muscle: masculinity and its religious uses. Muscular Christianity ; Hindustani honor ; The internal enemy ; Concluding remarks -- Monumental texts: Orientalism and the critical edition of India's national heritage. Müller's science ; India's adoption of German Wissenschaft ; Texts and the nationalist imaginaire ; Speaking, writing, watching ; Concluding remarks -- Aryan origins. The Aryan myth ; From language to skulls ; Race, class and criminality ; Concluding remarks
Subjects
- Religion and state -- Comparative studies.
- Religion and state -- India.
- Religion and state -- Great Britain.
- Comparative civilization.
- Religions -- Relations.
- Civilization, Modern -- Religious aspects.
- Imperialism -- Religious aspects.
- Imperialism -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
- India -- Religious life and customs.
- India -- Relations -- Great Britain.
- India -- Civilization -- British influences.
- Great Britain -- Religious life and customs.
- Great Britain -- Relations -- India.
- Great Britain -- Civilization -- History -- 19th century.