'Religion', Religious Identity and the Frustrations of Modernity

Authors

  • Srilata Raman The University of Toronto Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.213

Keywords:

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, identity politics, language, monotheolingualism, postcolonialism, religion, Sikhism

Abstract

This review discusses Arvind-Pal S. Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press.

Author Biography

  • Srilata Raman, The University of Toronto

    Srilata Raman is Assistant Professor of Modern Hinduism at the University of Toronto and works on medieval South Asian/South Indian religion, devotionalism (bhakti), historiography and hagiography, religious movements in early colonial India from the South as well as modern Tamil literature. Her areas of interest are Tamil and Sanskrit intellectual formations from late medieval to early colonial periods including the emergence of nineteenth-century socio-religious reform and colonial sainthood.

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Published

2012-01-20

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2010)

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Raman, S. (2012). ’Religion’, Religious Identity and the Frustrations of Modernity. Religions of South Asia, 4(2), 213-219. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.213