By Mathew N. Schmalz,Peter Gottschalk
Focusing on limitations, appropriations, and resistances concerned about Western engagements with South Asian religions, this edited quantity considers either the pre- and postcolonial interval in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It can pay specific consciousness to modern controversies surrounding the examine of South Asian religions, together with a number of students’ mirrored image at the contentious response to their very own paintings. different chapters reflect on such matters as British colonial epistemologies, the relevance of Hegel for the learn of South Asia, the canonization of Francis Xavier, feminist interpretations of the mum of the Buddha, and theological dispute between Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan. through the use of the topics of limitations, appropriations and resistances, this paintings deals perception into the dynamics and variety of Western ways to South Asian religions, and the indigenous responses to them, that avoids easy active/passive binaries.
Mathew N. Schmalz is affiliate Professor of non secular stories on the collage of the Holy go. in addition to writing on a regular basis as a panelist for the Newsweek/Washington put up “On religion” site, he has released in a variety of books and journals, together with The heritage of faith, The magazine of non secular reports, and technique & concept within the research of Religion.
Peter Gottschalk is Professor of faith at Wesleyan college. he's the writer of past Hindu and Muslim: a number of identification in Narratives from Village India and coauthor (with Gabriel Greenberg) of Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy.
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