帝国との遭遇:インドと英国の宗教とモダニティ<br>Imperial Encounters : Religion and Modernity in India and Britain

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帝国との遭遇:インドと英国の宗教とモダニティ
Imperial Encounters : Religion and Modernity in India and Britain

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 216 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780691074788
  • DDC分類 306.609171241

基本説明

Takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture.

Full Description

Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries. In the process, van der Veer chronicles how these notions developed in the second half of the nineteenth century in relation to gender, race, language, spirituality, and science. Avoiding the pitfalls of both world systems theory and national historiography, this book problematizes oppositions between modern and traditional, secular and religious, progressive and reactionary. It shows that what often are assumed to be opposites are, in fact, profoundly entangled. In doing so, it upsets the convenient fiction that India is the land of eternal religion, existing outside of history, while Britain is the epitome of modern secularity and an agent of history.
Van der Veer also accounts for the continuing role of religion in British culture and the strong part religion has played in the development of Indian civil society. This masterly work of scholarship brings into view the effects of the very close encounter between India and Britain--an intimate encounter that defined the character of both nations.

Contents

Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Secularity and Religion 14 The Separation of Church and State 16 Religion 24 Concluding Remarks 28 CHAPTER TWO The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire 30 The Moral State in Britain 34 The Colonial Mission in India 41 Concluding Remarks 53 CHAPTER THREE The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism 55 British Spirits 58 India's Spiritual Heritage 66 Concluding Remarks 77 CHAPTER FOUR Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses 83 Muscular Christianity 85 Hindustani Honor 94 The Internal Enemy 101 Concluding Remarks 104 CHAPTER FIVE Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage 106 Muller's Science 107 India's Adoption of German Wissenschaft 116 Texts and the Nationalist Imaginaire 122 Speaking, Writing, Watching 129 Concluding Remarks 131 CHAPTER SIX Aryan Origins 134 The Aryan Myth 136 From Language to Skulls 144 Race, Class and Criminality 150 Concluding Remarks 155 Conclusion 158 Notes 161 Bibliography 179 Index 191