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• ISBN 10: 0190654945
• ISBN 13: 9780190654948
• Author:  Michael J. Altman

Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about “Hinduism,” they speculated at length about “heathenism,” “the religion of the Hindoos,” and “Brahmanism.” In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, Michael J. Altman argues that this is not a mere sematic distinction-a case of more politically correct terminology being accepted over time-but a way that Americans worked out their own identities. American representations of India said more about Americans than about Hindus. Cotton Mather, Hannah Adams, and Joseph Priestley engaged the larger European Enlightenment project of classifying and comparing religion in India. Evangelical missionaries used images of “Hindoo heathenism” to raise support at home. Unitarian Protestants found a kindred spirit in the writings of Bengali reformer Rammohun Roy.

Table of contents:

1. Heathens and Hindoos in Early America

2. Missionaries, Unitarians, and Raja Rammohun Roy

3. Hindoo Religion in American National Culture

4. Transcendentalism, Brahmanism, and Universal Religion

5. The Theosophical Quest for Occult Power

6. Putting the “Religions” in the World’s Parliament of Religions

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