Orientalism and Religion

Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East"

Bibliographic Data

ID9306804
AuthorsRichard King (0000-0001-6404-8052), Richard A King (0000-0003-0519-8776, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-04-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byOrientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the 'Mystic East, Philip Goodchild, 2000
VenueOrientalism and Religion (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203006085
OpenAlexW4252797068
Open LibraryOL383830M
ISBN9780203006085
LanguageEN
Citations received323

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

Orientalism · Sociology · Theology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Study and Philosophy of Religion · India · Religion

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