Spiritual despots: Modern Hinduism and the genealogies of self-rule
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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-centuryanticolonialism in India.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- J. Barton
Scott - Language
- English
- Series
- South Asia across the disciplines.
- ISBN
- 9780226368702
- Release date
- 2017
