From review pasted in post 131: <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ironically as romantic defenders of a Hindu India against foreign invasion
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mythologies of Hindu warrior asceticism against the real-life experiences of powerful, violence-prone ascetics
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WILLIAM R. PINCH is Professor of History at <b>Wesleyan</b> University in Middletown, Connecticut. He is the author of Peasants and Monks in British India (1996).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This explains so much, the author is from a Wesleyan University: a christian university. Hence the dawaganda.
Let's look at the idol of Wesleyan University:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->[Reformer, founder of the <b>Methodist</b> movement] John Wesley (1703-91): "Wife: Be content to be insignificant. What loss would it be to God or man had you never been born."
Link<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Another prominent Protestant, John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of the Methodist Church, wrote that anyone who denied the reality of witchcraft was:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->in direct opposition not only to the Bible, but to the suffrage of the wisest and best of men in all ages and nations ... Thus giving up of witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Link<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->( http://freetruth.50webs.org/ )
So reformer Wesley was just another superstitious misogynist (in other words, a 'True Christian': well-versed in the Bible, being a respected reformer, indeed he is founder of the methodist church). No wonder the Wesleyan University, and its professors - like its (no doubt handpicked-for-the-cause) William R. Pinch who wrote the book/christo lies mentioned - are trying their best to imitate their esteemed role model.
May we expect the aforementioned Pinch, 'Professor of History' at Wesleyan University, to next turn his 'scholarly' mind to a book on proving witchcraft and justifying the subsequent christian torture and murder of 8 to 9 million in the dark ages? It will be perfectly matched to the 'scholastic' level of his output on India and also be a fitting eulogy to his master Wesley, vindicating the methodist superstition.
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mythologies of Hindu warrior asceticism against the real-life experiences of powerful, violence-prone ascetics
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WILLIAM R. PINCH is Professor of History at <b>Wesleyan</b> University in Middletown, Connecticut. He is the author of Peasants and Monks in British India (1996).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This explains so much, the author is from a Wesleyan University: a christian university. Hence the dawaganda.
Let's look at the idol of Wesleyan University:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->[Reformer, founder of the <b>Methodist</b> movement] John Wesley (1703-91): "Wife: Be content to be insignificant. What loss would it be to God or man had you never been born."
Link<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Another prominent Protestant, John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of the Methodist Church, wrote that anyone who denied the reality of witchcraft was:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->in direct opposition not only to the Bible, but to the suffrage of the wisest and best of men in all ages and nations ... Thus giving up of witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Link<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->( http://freetruth.50webs.org/ )
So reformer Wesley was just another superstitious misogynist (in other words, a 'True Christian': well-versed in the Bible, being a respected reformer, indeed he is founder of the methodist church). No wonder the Wesleyan University, and its professors - like its (no doubt handpicked-for-the-cause) William R. Pinch who wrote the book/christo lies mentioned - are trying their best to imitate their esteemed role model.
May we expect the aforementioned Pinch, 'Professor of History' at Wesleyan University, to next turn his 'scholarly' mind to a book on proving witchcraft and justifying the subsequent christian torture and murder of 8 to 9 million in the dark ages? It will be perfectly matched to the 'scholastic' level of his output on India and also be a fitting eulogy to his master Wesley, vindicating the methodist superstition.