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Modern hindusim and the genealogies of self-rule
J. Barton Scott
Modern hindusim and the genealogies of self-rule - 1st ed. - Delhi Primus Books c2016 - xi, 267 p. 24 cm.
Includes index
Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformat on and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule, J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu spiritual practices to create an ideal of the ‘self-ruling subject’ crucial to both nineteenth-century reform culture and early twentieth-century anti-colonialism in India. Scott uses the quaint term ‘priestcraft’ to track anticlerical polemics that vilified religious hierarchy.
9789386552693
Asceticism Hinduism; Autonomie Aspect religieux Hindouisme; Anti-clericalism Comparative studies
211.6 / SCO
Modern hindusim and the genealogies of self-rule - 1st ed. - Delhi Primus Books c2016 - xi, 267 p. 24 cm.
Includes index
Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformat on and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule, J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu spiritual practices to create an ideal of the ‘self-ruling subject’ crucial to both nineteenth-century reform culture and early twentieth-century anti-colonialism in India. Scott uses the quaint term ‘priestcraft’ to track anticlerical polemics that vilified religious hierarchy.
9789386552693
Asceticism Hinduism; Autonomie Aspect religieux Hindouisme; Anti-clericalism Comparative studies
211.6 / SCO