Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of TranslationArguing 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. |
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Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and ... Arvind-Pal S. Mandair No preview available - 2009 |
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and ... Arvind-pal Singh Mandair No preview available - 2009 |
Religion and the Specter of the West - Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and ... Arvind-Pal S. Mandair No preview available - 2016 |