ISBN:
0195393015
,
0199908338
,
1283713403
,
9780195393019
,
9780199908332
,
9781283713405
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xx, 421 p.)
,
ill
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gottschalk, Peter, 1963- Religion, science, and empire
DDC:
306.60954
Keywords:
British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
;
1765 - 1947
;
Geschichte 1765-1947
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Historiography
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Religion and politics
;
Religion and science
;
Religion and sociology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
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Geschichte
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Religion and sociology History
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Religion and science History
;
Religion and politics History
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Imperialismus
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Geschichte
;
Kolonialismus
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Islam
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Hinduismus
;
Indien
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Indien
;
Britisch-Indien
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Indien
;
Kolonialismus
;
Imperialismus
;
Hinduismus
;
Islam
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Geschichte 1765-1947
;
Britisch-Indien
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities
Description / Table of Contents:
Religion, science, and scientism -- Cartography, the ideal of science, and the place of religion -- First interlude : the dynamics of comparison and classification -- Christocentric travel writing : dynamics of comparison and classification -- Second interlude : the five modes of comparison -- Humanist travel writing : ascent of empiricism and the on the spot -- Third interlude : classification in the natural sciences -- Categories to count on : religion and caste in the census -- Raja, a ghost, and a tribe : studies in ethnology, folklore, and religion -- Popularizing Chainpur's past: archaeology in place and in museums -- Education : teaching scientism -- Chainpur today
Note:
Description based on print version record
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