Religion Science And Empire

Author : Peter Gottschalk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195393015
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Science, and Empire written by Peter Gottschalk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. England's ascent to power coincided with the rise of empirical science as an authoritative way of knowing not only the natural world, but the human one as well. The British scientific passion for classification, combined with the Christian impulse to differentiate people according to religion, led to a designation of Indians as either Hindu or Muslim according to rigidly defined criteria that paralleled classification in botanical and zoological taxonomies. Through an historical and ethnographic study of the north Indian village of Chainpur, Gottschalk shows that the Britons' presumed categories did not necessarily reflect the Indians' concepts of their own identities, though many Indians came to embrace this scientism and gradually accepted the categories the British instituted through projects like the Census of India, the Archaeological Survey of India, and the India Museum. Today's propogators of Hindu-Muslim violence often cite scientistic formulations of difference that descend directly from the categories introduced by imperial Britain. Religion, Science, and Empire will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in the colonial and postcolonial history of religion in India.

Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521848367
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature and the Godly Empire written by Sujit Sivasundaram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801884016
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 written by Edward Grant and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant illuminates how today's scientific culture originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages.

Author : Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science written by Draper and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John William Draper
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734059070
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Conflict between Religion and Science written by John William Draper and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: History of the Conflict between Religion and Science by John William Draper

Author : John William Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science written by John William Draper and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John William Draper
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387009488
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science written by John William Draper and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : John William Draper (Chemist.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science written by John William Draper (Chemist.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Chidester
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611757X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Religion written by David Chidester and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediations—imperial, colonial, and indigenous—in which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Müller’s dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan’s fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s studies of African religion. By reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial, Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of comparative religious studies.

Author : H. Carey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230228720
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of Religion written by H. Carey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling new collection on religion and imperialism, covering Ireland and Britain, Australia, Canada, the Cape Colony and New Zealand, Botswana and Madagascar. Bursting with accounts of lively characters and incidents from around the British world, this collection is essential reading for all students of religious and imperial history.