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the Orientalist image of India as essentially mystical and otherworldly, which King traces and critiques through colonial and comparative scholarship.

In religious studies, mystic East refers to the Orientalist image of India as essentially mystical and otherworldly, which King traces and critiques through colonial and comparative scholarship. This meaning comes from King (1999) in Orientalism and religion: postcolonial theory, India and ‘the mystic East’.[1]

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References

  1. King, R. (1999). Orientalism and religion: postcolonial theory, India and ‘the mystic East’. Routledge. ISBN 9780415202589

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