Construction of the Other, Identification of the Self

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Construction of the Other, Identification of the Self is written by Martin Tamcke and published by LIT Verlag Münster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3643902603 (ISBN 10) and 9783643902603 (ISBN 13).

This volume of diverse contributions revisits the European religious construction of the Indian Other. In their attempt to identify their European Self, missionaries from Germany constructed India as their Other and archived such constructions. Such archival narratives epitomize the conviction of these missionaries in their Christian faith and their belief in the superiority of the European Self. These narratives, however, provide readers (for whose eyes they were not meant originally) with spaces to locate their own past and to identify their own Self. (Series: Studies on Oriental Church History / Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte - Vol. 45)