Fantastic Borderlands and Masonic Meta-religion in Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King”
This article examines Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” through the lens of Freemasonry’s interreligious ideology. In British India, members of “The Craft” offered what scholar James Laine calls a meta-religion, a fraternity whose emphasis on interreligious tolerance masks power relations betwee...
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 263-289 |
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Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936, The man who would be king
/ The Phantastic
/ Interreligiosity
/ Freemasonry
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“The Man Who Would Be King”
B Religious Studies B Rudyard Kipling B Borderlands B Empire B the fantastic B late Victorian literature B Postcolonial Studies |
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