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Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'The Mystic East'
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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.
296 pages, Paperback
First published April 15,1999
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296 pages, Paperback
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April 15, 1999 by Routledge
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9780415202589
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0415202582
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English
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A helpful contribution to the project sometimes called 'anthropologising the West' - not assuming that the work done by European or other white scholars is normative or authoritative but investigating the social and political context in which it was produced. His history of the development of 'mysticism' as a category and nuanced analysis of the multiple applications and flaws of 'post-modernism' in this field were especially useful for me.
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This is fine, but he's hardly doing the work that he advocates (only cites the Western canon). Plus I think it's kind of a bad reading of Foucault (I have not even read much Foucault and I know this). But I'm definitely with him on the ridiculousness of the Western view of the mystical. ;) I'd rather just read Said.
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One of those books I wish I had read a long time ago. It would have saved me a lot of work. King does a great job tracing the historical complexities of comparative religion and orientalist along with postcolonial thought. His notion of methodological agnosticism is useful as well.
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The insights themselves are very interesting, but the book is very dense and, for me, boring. I am glad I read it, but I must say I did not enjoy reading it.
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Dense and redundant, there is plenty of information here for multiple disciplines, but King is forcing his narrative a bit when it comes to the construction of Vedanta/Neo-Hinduism as an inclusivist tradition based solely on cultural mimesis and orientalism. Have we forgotten the Gita’s 9th Chapter with Krishna expounding on how all those worshipping other gods have been worshipping him?
Also, using Paul Hacker as a reference for claiming Shankar’s lack of primacy and the crypto-Buddhism of the Mandukya Upanishad/Gaudapa’s Karika is absurd! The apologetic hermeneutic and mantra 99’s assertion of, “this is not what the Buddha said” means nothing to a Christian apologist like Hacker and his interpretation of “samabuddha” as the Shakyamuni. It’s surprising that King, a notable Indologist and Vedantic researcher, would allow such ambiguity in his non-paradigmatic paradigm.
King’s major contribution comes only in the chapter where—in a move Nagarjuna would be proud of—he asserts the concept of religion should exist without its reification as an independently existing concept.
Also, using Paul Hacker as a reference for claiming Shankar’s lack of primacy and the crypto-Buddhism of the Mandukya Upanishad/Gaudapa’s Karika is absurd! The apologetic hermeneutic and mantra 99’s assertion of, “this is not what the Buddha said” means nothing to a Christian apologist like Hacker and his interpretation of “samabuddha” as the Shakyamuni. It’s surprising that King, a notable Indologist and Vedantic researcher, would allow such ambiguity in his non-paradigmatic paradigm.
King’s major contribution comes only in the chapter where—in a move Nagarjuna would be proud of—he asserts the concept of religion should exist without its reification as an independently existing concept.
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An interesting book which is critical against the colonial definition of the eastern religious beliefs.
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a lucid critique at how we look at "religion" and "mysticism", unearthing the western bias inherent in the academic of religion.
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