A fine looking copy with no markings. There is normal age-toning to the endpapers. All else is fine.
#3800836 in Books 2004-05-26Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.27 x .68 x 6.21l; .0 #File Name: 0889204195192 pages
Review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Recommended for religious history and studies shelvesBy Midwest Book ReviewHindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy; Dayananda Saravati; And Nineteenth-Century Polemics Against Idolatry by Noel Salmond (Assistant Professor of Humanities and Religion; Carleton University; Ottawa; Ontario; Canada) is a serious; scholarly study that asks why would nineteenth-century Hindus; who come from an iconic religious tradition; give voice to the types of declarations and invectives one might more readily attribute to Hebrew prophets or Calvinists? Questioning the simplicity of the common assumption that nineteenth-century Hindu iconoclasm simply borrowed attitudes from Muslim and Protestant traditions; Hindu Iconoclasts delves deeper to explore the lives and words of such prominent figures of the era as Rammohun Roy and Dayananda Sarasvati; who sought to bring about reform by eliminating image worship. Hindu Iconoclasts stretches further beyond the initial scope of its premise; contemplating a link between religious image-rejection and the unification and modernization of society in a process Max Weber has termed "disenchantment of the world"; in a seminal discourse highly recommended for religious history and studies shelves.
