MARC details
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01894 a2200217 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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160729b 2009 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780231147255 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
294.6172 |
| Item number |
MAN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mandair, Arvind-Pal S. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Religion and the specter of the west: |
| Remainder of title |
sikhism India postcoloniality and the politics of translation |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Columbia University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2009 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
516 p. ; |
| Other physical details |
ill.; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price type code |
INR |
| Price amount |
2037.00 |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
Insurrections : critical studies in religion, politics, and culture Insurrections. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Sikhism and politics |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Translating and interpreting |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Political aspects |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Course Reserve |
