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Orientalism and Religion:

Postcolonial Theory, India and 'the Mystic East'
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Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1999 - Religion - 283 pages
Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, King provides us with a challenging series of reflections on the nature of Religious Studies and Indology.

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Review: Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East"

User Review  - Josh Tatum - Goodreads

The insights themselves are very interesting, but the book is very dense and, for me, boring. I am glad I read it, but I must say I did not enjoy reading it. Read full review

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User Review  - Elsie - Goodreads

This is fine, but he's hardly doing the work that he advocates (only cites the Western canon). Plus I think it's kind of a bad reading of Foucault (I have not even read much Foucault and I know this ... Read full review

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About the author (1999)

Richard King teaches Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism.

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TitleOrientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'the Mystic East'
AuthorRichard King
Editionreprint
PublisherRoutledge Chapman & Hall, 1999
ISBN0415202574, 9780415202572
Length283 pages
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Religion / General
Religion / History
Social Science / Sociology of Religion
  
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