Ecce Homo—Behold the Human! Reading Life-Narratives in Times of Colonial Modernity
The essay explores Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Krishnacaritra—published in 1886—the life of a humanised god, as engaged in cross cultural dialogues with John Robert Seeley’s Ecce Homo, Natural Religion, and The Expansion of England in particular, and the broader European tendency of naturalising reli...
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Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 3 |
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Victorian Jesus
B life narratives in colonial Bengal B John Robert Seeley B carita as genre B auto / biography B Krishnacaritra B Natural religions B Hagiography B Secularism B Bankimchandra Chatterjee |
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