Before Hinduism: Missionaries, Unitarians, and Hindoos in Nineteenth-Century America
American interest in and knowledge of religion in India began before Americans imagined Hinduism as a coherent world religion. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Americans used a variety of terms to describe, represent, and imagine the religious culture of India: Gentoos, Hindoos, religion of...
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Religion and American culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 260-295 |
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