Review of Imaging Hinduism: A Postcolonial perspective. By Sharada Sugirtharajah. Routledge, 2003. 164 pages This book is the first of its kind to bring post-colonial perspectives into a study of Hinduism. Consequently,…
Read more[Published in Cultural Dynamics 3 (4): 387–405] Introduction During the last decade or so, a new restlessness has begun to disturb the calm facade of the social scientific academia. As yet, it…
Read more[Appeared in (1991) CULTURAL DYNAMICS. 4(1). p.98-106] FRITS STAAL. Rules Without Meaning: Ritual, Mantras and the Human Sciences. Toronto Studies in Religion, Vol. 4. New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 1989 xxii+490. In order…
Read more[Original Dutch version is here.] Today, there are multiple images of India current in the West. There is the mystic India, an image that the German Romantics created and the…
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