Heterological Alternatives in the History of Religions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.221Keywords:
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, identity politics, language, monotheolingualism, postcolonialism, religion, SikhismAbstract
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.
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Dubuisson, Daniel. 1993. Mythologies du XXe Siècle (Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss, Eliade). Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille.
Eliade, Mircea. 1949. Le Mythe de l’éternel retour: Archétypes et répétition. Paris: Librarie Gallimard. (English translation, Eliade 1954.)
— 1954. Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
— 1961. Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism. London: Harvill Press.
— 1963. Myth and Reality. New York: Harper and Row.
— 1969. The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
— 1989a. Journal I, 1945–1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
— 1989b. Journal II, 1957–1969. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Geertz, Armin. 1994. ‘On Reciprocity and Mutual Reflection in the Study of Native American Religions.’ Religion 24: 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/reli.1994.1001
—1997. ‘Hermeneutics in Ethnography: Lessons for the Study of Religion.’ In Hans-Joachim Klimkeit (ed.), Vergleichen und Verstehen in der Religionswissenschaft: Vorträge der Jahrestagung der DVRG 1995: 53–70. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Mandair, Arvind-Pal Singh. 2001. ‘Thinking Differently about Religion and History: Issues for Sikh Studies.’ In Christopher Shackle, Gurharpal Singh and Arvind-Pal Mandair (eds), Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity: 47–71. Richmond: Curzon.
— 2009. Religion and the Specter of the West. New York: Columbia University Press.
McCutcheon, Russell T. 1993. ‘The Myth of the Apolitical Scholar.’ Queen’s Quarterly 100: 642–46.
Novick, Peter. 1998. That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Permenter, Rachela. 2001. ‘Romantic Postmodernism and the Literary Eliade.’ In Bryan Rennie (ed.), Changing Religious Worlds: The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade: 95–116. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Rennie, Bryan. 1996. Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
— 2003. ‘Religion after Religion, History after History: Postmodern Historiography and the Study of Religions.’ Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 15(3): 68–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700680360549420
— 2007. ‘Mircea Eliade: The Perception of the Sacred in the Profane, Intention, Reduction, and Cognitive Theory.’ Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 43(1): 73–98.
— 2008. ‘Mircea Eliade: “Secular Mysticism” and the History of Religions.’ Religion 38(4): 328–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.religion.2008.05.016
— 2009. ‘The Reception of Raffaele Pettazzoni in the Anglophone Academy.’ Paper presented to the 9th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions/Special Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions. University of Messina, Italy, 14-18 September, 2009. Forthcoming in Religion.
— 2010a. ‘Mircea Eliade and the Cognitive Study of Religion: Contradictory or Complementary Approaches.’ Presentation at Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Thursday 1 April, 2010.
— 2010b. ‘After This Strange Starting: Method, Theory and the Philosophy of Religion(s).’ Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 22(1): 116–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006810X512329
— 2010c. ‘Mircea Eliade and the Cognitive Study of Religion: Consonances between Cognitive Science and Eliadean Concepts (and Possible Applications Concerning Religion and Art).’ Annual National Conference of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Friday 29 October, 2010.
Robinson, Richard, and Willard Johnson. 2005. Buddhist Religions: A Historical Introduction. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 5th edn.
Sakai, Naoki. 1997. Translation and Subjectivity: On ‘Japan’ and Cultural Nationalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Smart, Ninian. 1996. Dimensions of the Sacred: an Anatomy of the World’s Beliefs. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. 1979. Faith and Belief. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Stausberg, Michael. 2009. Contemporary Theories of Religion: A Critical Companion. New York: Routledge.
Strenski, Ivan. 1989. Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth Century History. London: Macmillan.
Tu Weiming. 1984. ‘The Confucian Tradition: A Confucian Perspective on Learning to be Human.’ In Frank Whaling (ed.), The World’s Religious Traditions: 55–71. Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark.
Wasserstrom, Steven. 1999. Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henri Corbin at Eranos. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
White, Hayden. 1973. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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2012-01-20
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Rennie, B. (2012). Heterological Alternatives in the History of Religions. Religions of South Asia, 4(2), 221-231. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.221
