Mandair, Arvind-pal Singh.

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Religion and the specter of the West Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation / Arvind-pal S. Mandair. . — New York : Columbia University Press, 2009..

xviii, 516 p. 24 cm.

Introduction --- Part I. "Indian Religions" and Western Thought. 1. Mono-theo-lingualism: Religion, Language, and Subjectivity in Colonial North India -- 2. Hegel and the Comparative Imaginary of the West --- Part II. Theology as Cultural Translation. 3. Sikhism and the Politics of Religion-Making -- 4. Violence, Mysticism, and the Capture of Subjectivity --- Part III. Postcolonial Exits. 5. Ideologies of Sacred Sound -- 6. Decolonizing Postsecular Theory --- Epilogue.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sikhism and politics--History.--India
Translating and interpreting--Political aspects--History.--India
Religions--History--India.
Religion--Philosophy.