Academy and Community: Overcoming Suspicion and Building Trust

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com EACH OF THE ARTICLES in this roundtable deepens our understanding of the controversy over Wendy Doniger's boo...

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Autres titres:Roundtable on outrage, scholarship, and the law in India
Auteur principal: Rambachan, Anantanand 1951- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Oxford University Press [2016]
Dans: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Année: 2016, Volume: 84, Numéro: 2, Pages: 367-372
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Inde, Strafgesetzbuch (1860). 295A
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Résumé:© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com EACH OF THE ARTICLES in this roundtable deepens our understanding of the controversy over Wendy Doniger's book, The Hindus : An Alternative History , by situating it in broader historical and contemporary context. Brian K. Pennington provides a detailed summary of the responses to the controversy in the United States and India, noting a general absence of scholarly discussion of the significance of Section 295A. C. S. Adcock and Rupa Vishwanath address this lacuna in different ways. We learn from Adcock's paper that Section 295A was originally passed by the British in an effort to curb religious condemnation connected with proselytization. Initially the aggressive party was the Arya Samaj, a reformist Hindu organization founded by Swami Dayananda Saraswati in 1875. The law, as Adcock reveals,...
ISSN:1477-4585
Contient:Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfw030