(Anti-)Colonialism, religion and science in Bengal from the perspective of global religious history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12876372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Strube (0000-0002-1163-6552, University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88-107 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1740022822000110 |
| OpenAlex | W4220907118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article focuses on debates about the relationship between religion, science and national identity that unfolded in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal. Combining perspectives from religious studies and global history, it offers a specific approach to theoretical and methodological issues revolving around entanglement, agency and modernity. This will be operationalized, first, through an exploration of personal networks surrounding the Bengali Tantric pandit Shivachandra Bhattacharya Vidyarnava; his Bengali disciple, philosopher and nationalist educator, Pramathanath Mukhopadhyay and Shivachandra’s British disciple, the judge John Woodroffe. Second, an investigation of the connections between self-referentially ‘orthodox’ societies, so-called reformers, and the Theosophical Society will further illustrate the global exchanges that conditioned and shaped contemporary debates about religion, science and politics. This will complicate and shed new light on the contested relationship between modernity and tradition, or reformism and orthodoxy, opening new perspectives for further dialogue between religious studies and global history
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · BENGAL · Bengali · Colonialism · Epistemology · History of religions · Modernity · Nationalism · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |