TY  - BOOK
AU  - J. Barton Scott
TI  - Modern hindusim : and the genealogies of self-rule
SN  - 9789386552693
U1  - 211.6 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Primus Books
KW  - Asceticism Hinduism; Autonomie Aspect religieux Hindouisme; Anti-clericalism Comparative studies
N1  - index
N2  - 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
ER  -