Jesus the world-protector: eighteenth-century Gelukpa historians view Christianity (1).

From: Buddhist-Christian Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The assumption that religion was so seamlessly woven into non-Western and pre-industrial cultures that it was not even distinguished as a separate entity, let alone regarded as an object for study, has been a commonplace among Western scholars of religion for some decades. (2) From this point of view, which can be broadly characterized as postmodernist and postcolonialist, the concept of religion "is not a native category ... it is a category imposed from outside ... it is the other ... colonialists who are solely responsible for the content of the term." (3) This is a somewhat ...

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