Gods, Guns and Missionaries - Manu S Pillai

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When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess. But it quickly became clear that this ‘idolatry’ was far more layered and complex than European stereotypes allowed, surprisingly even sharing certain impulses with Christianity. Nonetheless, missionaries became a threatening force as European power grew in India. Western ways of thinking gained further ascendancy during the British Raj: while interest in Hindu thought influenced Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire in Europe, Orientalism and colonial rule pressed Hindus to reimagine their religion. In fact, in resisting foreign authority, they often adopted the missionaries’ own tools and strategies. It is this encounter, Manu S. Pillai argues, that has given Hinduism its present shape, also contributing to the birth of an aggressive Hindu nationalism. Gods, Guns and Missionaries surveys these remarkable dynamics with an arresting cast of characters. Lucid, ambitious, and provocative, it is at once a political history, an examination of the mutual impact of Hindu culture and Christianity upon each other, and a study of the forces that have prepared the ground for politics in India today. Turning away from simplistic ideas on religious evolution and European imperialism, the past as it appears here is more complicated – and infinitely richer – than previous narratives allow.

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Autor	Manu S Pillai
Wydawnictwo	Penguin
Oprawa	Miękka
Liczba stron	578
Wymiary	12,9 × 19,5 × 2,7 cm
Rok wydania	2026
Data premiery	2026-08-06
Wydanie	1
Kategoria wiekowa	+
Rodzaj	Książki
ISBN	9780141993492
EAN	9780141993492
Podmiot odpowiedzialny	Dorling Kindersley Verlag GmbH
Adres	Arnulfstr 124, 80639 Munich, Germany, PL
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