Orientalism and Religion
Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East"
By Richard King
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-20258-9
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 15th April 1999
- Pages: 296
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About the Book
Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, King provides us with a challenging series of reflections on the nature of Religious Studies and Indology.
About the Author(s)
Richard King teaches Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. He is the author of
Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism.
