Imagined Religious Communities and the “Culture of Bible-Readers”: Hinduism’s Challenge to European Religious Studies

• Authors: Christopher Jason Helton
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper will discuss the challenges posed by modern conceptions of Hinduism - in particular Heinrich von Stietencron’s conception of a “collection of religions” and Romila Thapar’s application of Benedict Anderson’s theory of “imagined communities” to Hinduism-to the European style of religious studies, particularly at the undergraduate level.

Keywords

EN

Hinduism; imagined communities; text-centered; historical approach; indigenous framework; culture of Bible-readers; therapeutic; religion; moksha-shastra

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ethnologia Actualis
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 8-18

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-09

Contributors

author

Christopher Jason Helton

• Department of Comparative Religion, Comenius University in Bratislava

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eas-2015-0013