The language of disenchantment Protestant literalism and colonial discourse in British India
Orientalism and the language of disenchantment -- "A disease of language": the attack on Hindu myth as verbal idolatry -- "One step from Babel to Pentecost": colonial codification, universal languages, and the debate over Roman transliteration -- "Vain repetitions": the...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
c 2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | AAR Reflection and theory in the study of religion
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Orientalism and the language of disenchantment -- "A disease of language": the attack on Hindu myth as verbal idolatry -- "One step from Babel to Pentecost": colonial codification, universal languages, and the debate over Roman transliteration -- "Vain repetitions": the attack on Hindu mantras -- The Hindu Moses: Christian polemics against Jewish ritual and the secularization of Hindu law. Orientalism and the language of disenchantment -- "A disease of language": the attack on Hindu myth as verbal idolatry -- "One step from Babel to Pentecost": colonial codification, universal languages, and the debate over Roman transliteration -- "Vain repetitions": the attack on Hindu mantras -- The Hindu Moses: Christian polemics against Jewish ritual and the secularization of Hindu law |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [253] - 284 |
| Beschreibung: | XXII, 298 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780199925018 978-0-19-992501-8 9780199924998 978-0-19-992499-8 |