Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair

November, 2009
Cloth, 536 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14724-8
$55.00 / £38.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

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

Glossary of Indic Terms

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian Studies
• Comparative Religion

Series

• Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

About the Author

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair teaches at the University of Michigan. He is a founding coeditor of the journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, and Theory.

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