TY - BOOK AU - Mandair,Arvind-pal Singh TI - Religion and the specter of the West: Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation SN - 9780231147248 U1 - 294.6 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Sikhism and politics KW - India KW - History KW - Translating and interpreting KW - Political aspects KW - Religions KW - Religion KW - Philosophy N1 - 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 ER -