By Mathew N. Schmalz,Peter Gottschalk
Focusing on limitations, appropriations, and resistances taken with Western engagements with South Asian religions, this edited quantity considers either the pre- and postcolonial interval in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It will pay specific realization to modern controversies surrounding the learn of South Asian religions, together with numerous students’ mirrored image at the contentious response to their very own paintings. different chapters contemplate such concerns as British colonial epistemologies, the relevance of Hegel for the research of South Asia, the canonization of Francis Xavier, feminist interpretations of the mummy of the Buddha, and theological dispute between Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan. through the use of the subjects of barriers, appropriations and resistances, this paintings deals perception into the dynamics and variety of Western techniques to South Asian religions, and the indigenous responses to them, that avoids basic active/passive binaries.
Mathew N. Schmalz is affiliate Professor of non secular reviews on the collage of the Holy move. along with writing usually as a panelist for the Newsweek/Washington submit “On religion” web site, he has released in a variety of books and journals, together with The background of faith, The magazine of spiritual reports, and strategy & thought within the research of Religion.
Peter Gottschalk is Professor of faith at Wesleyan college. he's the writer of past Hindu and Muslim: a number of id in Narratives from Village India and coauthor (with Gabriel Greenberg) of Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy.
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