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...
| Published in: | Religion and American culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
[2016]
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| In: |
Religion and American culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 260-295 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
/ Hinduism
/ Rāmamohana Rāẏa 1772-1833
/ Popularity
/ Unitarians
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| Further subjects: | B
Unitarians
B American missionaries B Hinduism B Rammohun Roy B India |
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