TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richards,A.
AU  - Omidvar,I.
TI  - Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers
T2  - Postcolonialism and Religions Series
SN  - 9781137405029
AV  - BL41 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Religions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Recovering Oriental Perspectives on the WestIraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards -- Part I Western and Eastern Europe -- 1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Eastern Orthodoxy, andthe Crystal Palace -- 2 The Moor's First Sight:An Arab Poet in a Ninth-CenturyViking Court -- Part II Northern Africa andWestern Asia -- 3 Ubeydullah Effendi in theUnited States: The Impressionsof an Ottoman Intellectualregarding the 1893 ChicagoWorld's Fair -- 4 Imperial Narratives: IslamicConcepts of Inclusion andExclusion in Ibn Fadlan's Accountof His Mission to the Bulgars -- 5 Two Muslim Travelers to theWest in the Nineteenth Century -- Part III Southern Asia -- 6 AJAIBĀT-E-FARANG: YousufKhan Kambalposh'sMetropolitan Journey andWays of Seeing the West -- 7 The International ColourLine Has Been Challenged":Solidarity Networks in IndianTravel Narratives -- 8 Reactions of Two BengaliWomen Travelers: KrishnobhabiniDas and Chitrita Devi -- Part IV Eastern and South-Eastern Asia -- 9 Chinese Culture and WesternTechnology: Qi Zhaoxi's Writingsabout the United States -- 10 Balinese Art, Religion, andCommunity in the Netherlands -- 11 Shigetsu Sasaki: Zen Vagabond inthe United States -- 12 Un-canning the Canny:McDonald's Japan and theMr. James Saga Edward K. Chan -- Conclusion Religion, Transculturalism, and Consciousness Anne R. Richards -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1839659
ER  -