The Saint in the Banyan Tree

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The Saint in the Banyan Tree
The Saint in the Banyan Tree
Author : David Mosse
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Language : English
Release Date : 01 October 2012
ISBN : 9780520273498
Pages : 407 pages
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“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author of Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age

The Saint in the Banyan Tree

The Saint in the Banyan Tree by David Mosse

“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author

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The Saint in the Banyan Tree

The Saint in the Banyan Tree by David Mosse

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