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Spiritual despots : modern Hinduism and the genealogies of self-rule
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Spiritual despots : modern Hinduism and the genealogies of self-rule / J. Barton Scott.
ISBN
9780226368702 (ebook) :
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 15, 2016).
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Summary
Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. 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 19th-century reform culture and early 20th-century anticolonialism in India.
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Chicago scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 10, 2017
Series
South Asia across the disciplines
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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