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082			_a294.507 _bODD
100			_aOddie, Geoffrey A _912246
245			_aImagined Hinduism : _bBritish Protestant missionary constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900
260			_aNew Delhi _bSAGE Publicatons _c2006
300			_a374p. _bpbk
520			_aThis book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using missionary writings, the author shows how the early conservative view of Hinduism as pagan or heathen grew into the dominant paradigm of Hinduism as a unitary, brahman-controlled system, ridden with idolatry, ritualism, superstition, and sexual license. The last few chapters examine the impact of these representations of Hinduism in India and the West. This book is noteworthy for its recognition of the role of ′imagination′ and the concept of the ′dominant paradigm′
650			_aHinduism _91012
650			_aInterfaith relations _912247
650			_aProtestant churches _912248
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