1st Edition
Religion, Language, and Power
Introduction. Mary Searle-Chatterjee and Nile Green.
Part 1. ‘Religion’: a Hegemonic Concept.
Chapter 1. Making Religion in Modern China. Francesca Tarocco.
Chapter 2. Technologies of Faith: Dialogues on Religion and Violence at the Parliament of World Religions. John Zavos.
Part 2. Self and Others: ‘Religious’ Labelling.
Chapter 3. Language and Power: The Case of Three Early Jewish Sects: The Rabbis, the Descenders to the Chariot and the Dead Sea Community. Philip Alexander.
Chapter 4. ‘"To Be a Christian": Discourse and Social Change in the World of the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers’. Todd Klutz.
Chapter 5. Who are the Others? Three Moments in Sanskrit-based Practice. Jacqueline Suthren-Hirst.
Chapter 6. Uses of the word ‘Hindu’ in North India. Mary Searle-Chatterjee.
Chapter 7. ‘Sacred Language’ and ‘Infidel dog!’: The Theological Specificity of Approbatory and Derogatory Terms of Reference in Religion, and the Question of the Reality and Translatability of ‘Sacred Languages’. Alan Williams.
Chapter 8. Writing the Islamic Holy Man: Language, Genre and the Politics of Description between India and Iran. Nile Green.
Chapter 9. Reclaiming Mysticism: Anti-Orientalism and the Construction of ‘Islamic Sufism’ in Post-Second World War Egypt. Andreas Christmann.
Chapter 10. Articulating Anglicanism: the Church of England and the Language of the ‘Other’ During the Long Eighteenth Century. Jeremy Gregory.
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Nile Green is Associate Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has published over 35 articles in international journals, as well as Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century (Routledge, 2006) and Islam and the Army in Colonial India (Cambridge, 2008).
Mary Searle-Chatterjee has published articles in edited collections including ‘World Religions’ and ‘Ethnic Groups’: Do these Paradigms Lend themselves to the Cause of Hindu Nationalism?" , as well as chapters in edited collections. Her books include Contextualising Caste, co-edited with Ursula Sharma (Blackwell, 1991; reprinted Rawat, 2003) and Reversible Sex Roles : The Special Case of Benares Sweepers (Pergamon, 1981).
