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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East"User Review - Josh Tatum - GoodreadsThe 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 Review: Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East"User Review - Elsie - GoodreadsThis 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 Related books
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