The Language of Disenchantment explores how Protestant ideas about language inspired British colonial critiques of Hindu mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions.
The Language of Disenchantment explores how Protestant ideas about language inspired British colonial critiques of Hindu mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions.
Robert A. Yelle is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Helen Hardin Honors Program at the University of Memphis. He received a Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of Explaining the Mantras and The Semiotics of Religion, and co-author of After Secular Law.
Inhaltsangabe
* Contents * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Preface * Chapter One: Orientalism and the Language of Disenchantment * Chapter Two: "A Disease of Language": The Attack on Hindu Myth as Verbal Idolatry * Chapter Three: "One Step from Babel to Pentecost": Colonial Codification, Universal Languages, and the Debate over Roman Transliteration * Chapter Four: "Vain Repetitions": The Attack on Hindu Mantras * Chapter Five: The Hindu Moses: Christian Polemics against Jewish Ritual and the Secularization of Hindu Law * Afterword * Notes * Bibliography
* Contents * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Preface * Chapter One: Orientalism and the Language of Disenchantment * Chapter Two: "A Disease of Language": The Attack on Hindu Myth as Verbal Idolatry * Chapter Three: "One Step from Babel to Pentecost": Colonial Codification, Universal Languages, and the Debate over Roman Transliteration * Chapter Four: "Vain Repetitions": The Attack on Hindu Mantras * Chapter Five: The Hindu Moses: Christian Polemics against Jewish Ritual and the Secularization of Hindu Law * Afterword * Notes * Bibliography
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