Religion and the specter of the west/
Mandair,Arvind Pal S.
- New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
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