ANTH2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Taoism, Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda
12 Dec 2018
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It is therefore impossible to reflect on the mod- ern history of india and china without an implicit reference to both the contents and discontents of european modernity, There is no term equivalent to spirituality in sanskrit or mandarin chinese (although, obviously, there are words for spirit ), but this term is increasingly used to connect discursive traditions that come to be called hinduism or confucianism or daoism. Vague term like spirituality has been adopted precisely to make peaceful communication between different conceptual universes possible. Was a growing sense in ger- many, but also elsewhere in the western world, that traditional. Christianity had been dethroned by the enlightenment and could not offer a modern spirituality. In taking this up the nationalists adopted the ori- entalist perspective of european romanticism in which hindu civilization is highly appreciated for its spiritual qualities. The translation of hindu discursive traditions into spirituality meant a significant transformation of these traditions.
