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Against Invention: A richer history for ‘Hinduism’
Against Invention: A richer history for ‘Hinduism’
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Feb 19, 2018
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Podcast episode
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In this interview Associate Professor Will Sweetman talks to Thomas White about the idea that ‘Hinduism’ and many of the other terms we use to classify religions—including the term religion itself—are modern inventions, emerging out of nineteenth-century inter-cultural contact and European colonialism. Will argues against this critique, and to make his case he draws on historical sources that discuss ‘Hinduism’ both outside of the anglophone ...
Released:
Feb 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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