Altman Michael J Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu 9780190654924

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Автор: Altman Michael J
Название: Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
ISBN: 9780190654924
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Индуизм

ISBN-10: 0190654929
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 200
Вес: 0.49 кг.
Дата издания: 01.08.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 8 illus.
Размер: 165 x 242 x 22
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: American representations of india, 1721-1893
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about Hinduism, they speculated at length about heathenism, the religion of the Hindoos, and Brahmanism. In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, Michael J. Altman argues that this is not a mere sematic distinction-a case of more politically correct terminology being accepted over time-but a way that Americans worked out their own identities. American representations of India said more about Americans than about Hindus.
Cotton Mather, Hannah Adams, and Joseph Priestley engaged the larger European Enlightenment project of classifying and comparing religion in India. Evangelical missionaries used images of Hindoo heathenism to raise support at home. Unitarian Protestants found a kindred spirit in the writings of Bengali reformer Rammohun Roy. Popular magazines and common school books used the image of dark, heathen, despotic India to buttress Protestant, white, democratic American identity. Transcendentalists and Theosophists imagined the contemplative and esoteric religion of India as an alternative to materialist American Protestantism. Hindu delegates and American speakers at the 1893 Worlds Parliament of Religions engaged in a protracted debate about the definition of religion in industrializing America.
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Altman reorients American religious history and the history of Asian religions in America, showing how Americans of all sorts imagined India for their own purposes. The questions that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past, he argues, still animate American debates today.

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