Early English orientalism served homegrown Anglican church-politics disputes
Evidence
Selden recruited Pococke to assist him in editing a small section of this chronicle in order to make contemporary polemical points against those who maintained the primacy of bishops. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 165
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: British imperialism first politicized religious division at home, not in its colonies. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2312; Orientalism first targeted England’s own aristocracy and poor before external targets