Brian K Pennington
Biographic Data
| ID | 1251046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian K Pennington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian K |
| FAMILY NAME | Pennington |
| SIGNATURE | PENNINGTON B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maryville College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1673-7624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Elusive Himalayan Secularism
In November 2021, the state government of Uttarakhand, India withdrew the Cār Dhām Devasthānam Management Act, a law enacted only two years prior to establish state government authority over pilgrimage practice at fifty-three temples in Garhwal, a linguistic-cultural region in the Indian Himalayas. Supporters of this bill had sought to ensure transparency in the management of these major pilgrimage temples. Hereditary ritual specialists at the te…
A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem
In this roundtable discussion, five scholars of modern India with diverse methodological training examine aspects of Rupa Viswanath's 2014 book,The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India, and assess its arguments and contributions. This book has made strong challenges to the scholarly consensus on the nature of caste in India, arguing that, in the Madras presidency under the British, caste functioned as a form of labour c…
Ritual Innovation
Elmore, Mark
Anthropos , Seite 722 - 723
The Unseen Hand of an Underappreciated Law
The international outcry by scholars and journalists that followed Penguin Books,’ withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s 2009, The Hindus: An Alternative History , typically attributed the conflict to one of two causes. Reactions in India tended to blame the publisher for capitulating to pressure from the Hindu right; reactions in the United States tended to blame a climate of intolerance for free speech in India as a whole. This article argues that both…
Teaching Religion and Violence
This book represents the accumulated professional insights and experience of expert college and university instructors who teach and write about the intersections of religion and violence. The introduction discusses the pedagogical challenges that any instructor faces when they design and deliver a course on religion and violence for undergraduates entering college in the post-9/11 world. Its first section, “Traditions,” provides historical and t…
Hindu Nationalists of Modern India
Colonialism, Modernity, and Religious Identities
Beyond Sacred Violence
Among the many predecessors she acknowledges, the work that Kathryn McClymond's Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice most closely resembles, and to which it must be favorably compared, is Hubert and Mauss's 1898 classic, Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function. Like her French forebears in the theorization of sacrifice, McClymond focuses her comparative analysis on the authoritative textual and commentarial traditions of Vedic Hind…
Hindu Nationalism
Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India – By William Gould
Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities
Was Hinduism Invented?
Is “Hinduism” a legitimate term for the widely varying religious practices of India that are commonly called by that name? The appearance of “religion” as a category comprising a set of practices and beliefs allegedly found in every culture dates from the modern period, emerging as Europe expanded trade abroad and established its first colonial relations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Hinduism emerged in the encounter between modernity’s greates…
Was Hinduism invented
Pennington retells the story of Christian's and Hindu's reception of each other in early 19th century Bengal, giving prominence to the power of the respective worldviews to shape the encounter and to help produce the very religions that colonialism thought it 'discovered'
Constructing Colonial Dharma in Calcutta
This chapter examines a one year run of the Bengali paper Samācār Candrikā to sketch the contours of an elite Bengali Hindu response to missionaries and Orientalists. Among the very earliest Hindu newspapers to survive today, the Samācār Candrikā was published in Calcutta by Bhabānīcaran Bandyopādhyāya and associated with the orthodox Hindu organization the Dharma Sabhā. First formed to protest elements of colonialism, especially the government’s…
Introduction
The following papers were originally presented at the annual meetings of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion and the Southeastern region of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta on Mar. 5-7, 2004. Two sessions were convened to engage in critical reflection on the career and work of Bruce Lincoln. Four respected scholars from different fields in the study of religion came to ask their own specific set of questions of Profes…
Constructing colonial Dharma
The Bengali newspaper Samācār Candrikā from 1830 to 1831 offers a glimpse at the emergence of the Modern, popular Hinduism now evident in Hindu nationalism in India. Preserving orthodox Hindu responses to the reforms advocated by the rational Hindu monotheism of the Brahmo Samaj and evangelical Christian missionaries, the newspaper stressed the unifying Character of Hindu ritual, the spiritual significance of caste, and the traditional gender rel…
Constructing Colonial Dharma
The Bengali newspaper Samācār Candrikā from 1830 to 1831 offers a glimpse at the emergence of the Modern, popular Hinduism now evident in Hindu nationalism in India. Preserving orthodox Hindu responses to the reforms advocated by the rational Hindu monotheism of the Brahmo Samaj and evangelical Christian missionaries, the newspaper stressed the unifying Character of Hindu ritual, the spiritual significance of caste, and the traditional gender rel…
The Unseen Hand of an Underappreciated Law
The international outcry by scholars and journalists that followed Penguin Books,’ withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s 2009, The Hindus: An Alternative History , typically attributed the conflict to one of two causes. Reactions in India tended to blame the publisher for capitulating to pressure from the Hindu right; reactions in the United States tended to blame a climate of intolerance for free speech in India as a whole. This article argues that both…
A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem
In this roundtable discussion, five scholars of modern India with diverse methodological training examine aspects of Rupa Viswanath's 2014 book,The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India, and assess its arguments and contributions. This book has made strong challenges to the scholarly consensus on the nature of caste in India, arguing that, in the Madras presidency under the British, caste functioned as a form of labour c…
Constructing colonial Dharma
The Bengali newspaper Samācār Candrikā from 1830 to 1831 offers a glimpse at the emergence of the Modern, popular Hinduism now evident in Hindu nationalism in India. Preserving orthodox Hindu responses to the reforms advocated by the rational Hindu monotheism of the Brahmo Samaj and evangelical Christian missionaries, the newspaper stressed the unifying Character of Hindu ritual, the spiritual significance of caste, and the traditional gender rel…
Constructing Colonial Dharma
The Bengali newspaper Samācār Candrikā from 1830 to 1831 offers a glimpse at the emergence of the Modern, popular Hinduism now evident in Hindu nationalism in India. Preserving orthodox Hindu responses to the reforms advocated by the rational Hindu monotheism of the Brahmo Samaj and evangelical Christian missionaries, the newspaper stressed the unifying Character of Hindu ritual, the spiritual significance of caste, and the traditional gender rel…
Was Hinduism Invented?
Is “Hinduism” a legitimate term for the widely varying religious practices of India that are commonly called by that name? The appearance of “religion” as a category comprising a set of practices and beliefs allegedly found in every culture dates from the modern period, emerging as Europe expanded trade abroad and established its first colonial relations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Hinduism emerged in the encounter between modernity’s greates…
Was Hinduism invented
Pennington retells the story of Christian's and Hindu's reception of each other in early 19th century Bengal, giving prominence to the power of the respective worldviews to shape the encounter and to help produce the very religions that colonialism thought it 'discovered'
Constructing Colonial Dharma in Calcutta
This chapter examines a one year run of the Bengali paper Samācār Candrikā to sketch the contours of an elite Bengali Hindu response to missionaries and Orientalists. Among the very earliest Hindu newspapers to survive today, the Samācār Candrikā was published in Calcutta by Bhabānīcaran Bandyopādhyāya and associated with the orthodox Hindu organization the Dharma Sabhā. First formed to protest elements of colonialism, especially the government’s…
Introduction
The following papers were originally presented at the annual meetings of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion and the Southeastern region of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta on Mar. 5-7, 2004. Two sessions were convened to engage in critical reflection on the career and work of Bruce Lincoln. Four respected scholars from different fields in the study of religion came to ask their own specific set of questions of Profes…
Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India – By William Gould
Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities
Hindu Nationalism
Colonialism, Modernity, and Religious Identities
Beyond Sacred Violence
Among the many predecessors she acknowledges, the work that Kathryn McClymond's Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice most closely resembles, and to which it must be favorably compared, is Hubert and Mauss's 1898 classic, Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function. Like her French forebears in the theorization of sacrifice, McClymond focuses her comparative analysis on the authoritative textual and commentarial traditions of Vedic Hind…
Hindu Nationalists of Modern India
Teaching Religion and Violence
This book represents the accumulated professional insights and experience of expert college and university instructors who teach and write about the intersections of religion and violence. The introduction discusses the pedagogical challenges that any instructor faces when they design and deliver a course on religion and violence for undergraduates entering college in the post-9/11 world. Its first section, “Traditions,” provides historical and t…
The Unseen Hand of an Underappreciated Law
The international outcry by scholars and journalists that followed Penguin Books,’ withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s 2009, The Hindus: An Alternative History , typically attributed the conflict to one of two causes. Reactions in India tended to blame the publisher for capitulating to pressure from the Hindu right; reactions in the United States tended to blame a climate of intolerance for free speech in India as a whole. This article argues that both…
Ritual Innovation
Elmore, Mark
Anthropos , Seite 722 - 723
A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem
In this roundtable discussion, five scholars of modern India with diverse methodological training examine aspects of Rupa Viswanath's 2014 book,The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India, and assess its arguments and contributions. This book has made strong challenges to the scholarly consensus on the nature of caste in India, arguing that, in the Madras presidency under the British, caste functioned as a form of labour c…
An Elusive Himalayan Secularism
In November 2021, the state government of Uttarakhand, India withdrew the Cār Dhām Devasthānam Management Act, a law enacted only two years prior to establish state government authority over pilgrimage practice at fifty-three temples in Garhwal, a linguistic-cultural region in the Indian Himalayas. Supporters of this bill had sought to ensure transparency in the management of these major pilgrimage temples. Hereditary ritual specialists at the te…
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