How Long to Read The Birth of Orientalism

How Long Does it Take to Read The Birth of Orientalism?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 30 minutes to read The Birth of Orientalism by Urs App

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Based on sources from a dozen languages, many unavailable in English, The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of this protracted genesis, its underlying dynamics, and the Western discovery of Asian religions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. App documents the immense influence of Japan and China and describes how the Near Eastern cradle of civilization moved toward mother India. Moreover, he shows that some of India's purportedly oldest texts were products of eighteenth-century European authors. Though Western engagement with non-Abrahamic Asian religions reaches back to antiquity and can without exaggeration be called the largest-scale religiocultural encounter in history, it has so far received surprisingly little attention—which is why some of its major features and their role in the birth of modern Orientalism are described here for the first time. The study of Asian documents had a profound impact on Europe's intellectual makeup. Suddenly the Bible had much older competitors from China and India, Sanskrit threatened to replace Hebrew as the world's oldest language, and Judeo-Christianity appeared as a local phenomenon on a dramatically expanded, worldwide canvas of religions and mythologies. Orientalists were called upon as arbiters in a clash that involved neither gold and spices nor colonialism and imperialism but, rather, such fundamental questions as where we come from and who we are: questions of identity that demanded new answers as biblical authority dramatically waned.

How long is The Birth of Orientalism?

The Birth of Orientalism by Urs App is 570 pages long, and a total of 142,500 words.

This makes it 192% the length of the average book. It also has 174% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Birth of Orientalism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 58 minutes to read The Birth of Orientalism aloud.

What Reading Level is The Birth of Orientalism?

The Birth of Orientalism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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