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Orientalism and religion : post-colonial theory, India and the mystic East

In this text Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted
Print Book, English, 1999
Routledge, New York, 1999
viii, 283 pages
9780415202572, 9780415202589, 0415202574, 0415202582
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The power of definitions: a genealogy of the idea of 'the mystical'
Disciplining religion
Sacred texts, hermeneutics and world religions
Orientalism and Indian religions
The modern myth of 'Hinduism'
'Mystic Hinduism': Vedanta and the politics of representation
Orientalism and the discovery of 'Buddhism'
The politics of privatization: Indian religion and the study of mysticism
Beyond orientalism? Religion and comparativism in a postcolonial era