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The birth of orientalism

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47261] Author:	AppUrs, 1949-
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Philadelphia
[NT 47263] Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	c2010
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 550 p.)ill. :
[NT 47298] Series:	Encounters with Asia
[NT 47266] Subject:	Religions - Study and teaching - 18th century -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Orientalism - History - Europe - 18th century -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Europe - Intellectual life - 18th century -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Asia - Religion - 18th century -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812200058/
[NT 47265] Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index
[NT 51398] Summary:	"Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Basedon sources from a dozen languages, many unavailable in English, The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of this protractedgenesis, its underlying dyclmics, and the Western discovery of Asian religions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. App documents the immense influence of Japan and China and describes how the Near Eastern cradle of civilization moved toward mother India. Moreover, he showsthat some of India's purportedly oldest texts were products of eighteenth-century European authors. Though Western engagement with non-Abrahamic Asian religions reaches back to antiquity and can without exaggeration be called the largest-scale religiocultural encounter in history, it hasso far received surprisingly little attention--which is why some of its major features and their role in the birth of modern Orientalismare described here for the first time. The study of Asian documents had a profound impact on Europe's intellectual makeup. Suddenly the Biblehad much older competitors from China and India, Sanskrit threatened to replace Hebrew as the world's oldest language, andJudeo-Christianityappeared as a local phenomenon on a dramatically expanded, worldwide canvas of religions and mythologies. Orientalists were called upon as arbiters in a clash that involved neither gold and spices nor colonialismand imperialism but, rather, such fundamental questions as where we come from and who we are: questions of identity that demanded new answersas biblical authority dramatically waned"--Publisher description
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780812200058electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780812242614hbk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0812242610hbk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	Introduction -- Voltaire's Veda -- Ziegenbalg's and La Croze's discoveries -- Diderot's Buddhist Brahmins -- De Guignes's Chinese Vedas -- Ramsay's Ur-tradition -- Holwell's religion of paradise -- Anquetil-Duperron's search for the true Vedas -- Volney's revolutions

The birth of orientalism
App, Urs

The birth of orientalism / Urs App - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xviii, 550 p.) ; ill.. - (Encounters with Asia).
Introduction -- Voltaire's Veda -- Ziegenbalg's and La Croze's discoveries -- Diderot's Buddhist Brahmins -- De Guignes's Chinese Vedas -- Ramsay's Ur-tradition -- Holwell's religion of paradise -- Anquetil-Duperron's search for the true Vedas -- Volney's revolutions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780812200058ISBN 9780812242614ISBN 0812242610
ReligionsOrientalism -- Study and teaching -- History -- Europe -- 18th century -- 18th century

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