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Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
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Hardback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRAC; HRKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 38. Weight in Grams: 848.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231147248
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V9780231147248
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About Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair is associate professor of Asian languages and cultures and S.C.S.B. Endowed Professor of Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan. He is a founding coeditor of the journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory.
Reviews for Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation
Overall, Mandair's broad temporal, spatial, and intellectual perspectives make this a very interesting volume. By exploring Sikhism from the perspectives of deconstructionist, postcolonial, and postsecular theory, he fills in an important gap in Sikh philosophy and charts out provocative new directions.
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