Religion and the specter of the west/ Mandair,Arvind Pal S.

Introduction 1
"Indian Religions" and Western Thought—Disorders of Identity
and the Memory of Politics—Theology as Cultural Translation—
Postcoloniality, Theory, and the Afterlives of Religion
Part I. "Indian Religions'" and Western Thought
1. Mono-theo-lingualism: Religion, Language, and Subjectivity
in Colonial North India 45
The "Failure of Secular Creeds" in Politics and Theory—Religion
and Nationalism in Colonial North India—"Dialogue" and the
Emergence of Public Spheres in Britain and India—The Colonial
Idiom: The Anglicist Reversal of the "Hindoo" Stereotype — Indian
Public Responses to the Colonial Idiom—Rethinking the "Interactionist"
Model of Colonial Agency—Modes of Address: English
and the Purification of Native Speech — Fabrication of the "Mother
Tongue(s)" — The English Orthopaideia: "Generalized Translation"
and the Transition to the Global Eiduciarx
2. Hegel and the Comparative Imaginary of the West
The Orthodo xy of Secular Anti-lniperialisi Critique—Cultural
Nationalism ami the "Intellectual Rekindling of Christianity" —
Monogenesis: Race, Reason, and Monotheism in Orientalism^ —
Indology and the Pantheist Controversy: Herder, Schle^el, and
Schellinft- Namiiiff the Origin: Hegel's Critique of Deism and
Natural Religion —Of Passage and Installation: The Question of
Spirit—Linking Aufhebung to the Ontological Proof for God's
Existence — Hegel's Schema as a Diagram for the Production of
History — Influences of Hegel's Schema —Theo.sophy, Indology,
and the Religious Reform Movements
Part II. Theology as Cultural Translation
3. Sikhism and the Politics of Religion-Making
Early Colonial Accounts of Sikhs and Sikhism —Demarcating a
Regime of Translation: Trumpp's "Odium Theologicum" — Pincott
and the Politics of Classification—Manufacturing Native Informancy:
Macaidiffe's "Dialogue" with the Sikh Reformists—Reinstalling
Sikhism Within the History of Religions—Reconstituting Gurmat as
"Sikh Theology" — Nation and the Time o/Novitas.- Teja Singh's The
Growth of Responsibility in Sikhism —7/Y;/;.v(r/;r/c//f c and the Over
coming of Lack—Refiguring Tune as Eternity: The Eclip.se of Nonduality
in the Vernacular Commentaries on Sikh Scripture—Erom the
Ontological Proof to the Eormulation of Sikhism as a "World Religion"
4. Violence, Mysticism, and the Capture of Subjectivity
Wars of Scholarship—How Sacred Origins Construct a "Critical"
Hi.story of the Sikh Religion —The Sant Ideal: nirgun bhakti —
Is Modern Sikh Theology?-Guru, Sabda, Nam.' Language and the
Location of Authority)—Reading the "Divine Self-Expression" —
Voice, Language, Subjectivity: A Theoretical Digression —Translation
and the Normalization of "Religious" Subjectivity—Sui Generis
Religion and the Question of Pluralism — Translating the Theory of
Religion Into the Liberal Imaginary—Violence and the Mediatization
of the Sikhs, 1984 to 9/11
Part III. Postcolonial Exits
5. Ideologies of Sacred Sound
Language and the Crises of Humanism —The Phonemic Principle
in Hermeneutics and Ethnology—Orality, Texts, and the Nationalist
Imaginary—Ethnoscience and the Problem of Translation: The Case
of Sikh Scripture—Sounding the Vedic Economy—Deontologizing
the Word (sabda); Metaphysics of "Eternal Sanskrit" and the
Production of a Sonic Mimetology—Sonic Hermeneutics as an
Ethnology of Sikhism—Revisiting the Site of Lack—Reclaiming the
Nondual Ground of the Guru Granth — The Word as Guru: Toward
a Materialist Sketch ofNanak's Teachings
6. Decolonizing Postsecular Theory 379
The Cidtural Bias of Theory—Reassessing the Narratives of
Emancipation—Europe's Secret Responsibility and Eundamental
Fear—Postcolonial Assessments—Historical Difference in Theory—
The Global Fiduciary—"What //"Religio Remained Untranslatable?":
Geopolitics and Theory