220134 Religion, Modernity and Conflicts: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Asia (S) (WiSe 2009/2010)

Part 1: Religion in Asia

1. Asad, Talal, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam, The John Hopkins University Press (London, 1993), pp. 27-54.
2. Balagangadhara, S.N. ‘The Heathen in His Blindness ...`: Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion, Brill (Leiden, 1994) (Studies in the history of religions 64), pp. 265- 317, 377-438.
3. King, Richard, “Orientalism and the Modern Myth of ´Hinduism`” in Numen, Vol. 46, No.2, 1999, pp. 146-185.
4. Veer, Peter van der, “Religion in South Asia”, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 31, 2002, pp. 173-187.

Part 2: Modernity

1. Dirlik, Arif, “Modernity as History: Post-Revolutionary China, Globalization and the Question of Modernity”, in Social History, Vol. 27, No. 1, January 2002, pp. 16-39.
2. Veer, Peter van der, “The Global History of ´Modernity`”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 41, No. 3, 1998, pp. 285-294.
3. Chatterjee, Partha, “Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India”, in American Ethnologist, Vol. 16, No. 4, Nov. 1989, pp. 622-633.
4. Waligora, Melitta, “Empire and the Invention of a New Femininity: India and Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century”, in Südasien-Informationen, No. 12, Jan. 2007, pp. 1-13.
5. Brenner, Suzanne, “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘The Veil’”, American Ethnologist, Vol. 23, No. 4, Nov. 1996, pp. 673-697.

Part 3: Conflict

1. Pandey, Gyanendra, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (New Delhi, 1990), pp. 1-65 (Chapter 1 & 2).
2. Freitag, Sandria B., Collective Action and Community: Public Arenas and the Emergency of Communalism in North India (Berkeley, 1989), pp. 3-52.
3. Mani, Lata, “Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India”, Cultural Critique, No. 7, Autumn1987, pp. 119-156.
4. Ong, Aihwa, “State versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia”, American Ethnologist, Vol. 17, No. 2, May 1990, pp. 258-276.

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