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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Anne-Julie Etter (Paris): "Surveying Religion thro
 ugh Material Remains in Early Colonial India"
DTSTART:20131114T170000Z
DTEND:20131114T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20260417T084509Z
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DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nMaterial remains are usually not dealt with by the abun
 dant literature on the construction of Hinduism pondering on the respectiv
 e roles of Europeans and Brahmins. Yet\, they have played an important rol
 e in the delineation of Indian religions. Europeans have used monuments an
 d statues as sources in order to understand and study Indian religious pra
 ctices and concepts and to outline India’s religious history\, notably f
 or examining the respective antiquity of and relationships between Brahman
 ism\, Jainism and Buddhism.\nIn order to be used as sources\, these materi
 al remains had to be deciphered. This raises the problem of concepts and m
 ethods through which they were described and analysed. This presentation a
 ims at highlighting the existence of a religious bias in the reading of ar
 chitecture and iconography on the one hand and at examining the impact of 
 such bias on the study of Indian religions on the other.\nThis bias is its
 elf twofold. Firstly\, it pertains to the influence of Christian concepts 
 and ideas on the interpretation of remains belonging to what came to be ca
 lled the religion of the Gentiles\, idolatry or the religion of the Hindus
 . Secondly\, it relates to the influence of Brahmanical concepts through t
 he resort to Brahmin informants\, who tended to absorb Jain and Buddhist r
 emains within the realm of Brahmanism.
LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131114-guestlecture-etter/
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