From court to court: Religious polities and the modern south Asian public
Responding to recent scholarship on premodern religious publics in South Asia, this essay cautions against the retrojection of the modern category onto past political, religious, and cultural patterns. The essay highlights instead the need for examining historical developments taking place between t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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| In: |
Religion compass
Year: 2020, Volume: 14, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-11 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asia
/ Religious policy
/ Colonialism
/ Publicity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Law
B Modernity B Colonialism B Hinduism B India B Kingship |
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| Summary: | Responding to recent scholarship on premodern religious publics in South Asia, this essay cautions against the retrojection of the modern category onto past political, religious, and cultural patterns. The essay highlights instead the need for examining historical developments taking place between the early colonial and the late colonial era as a useful way to ponder what becomes of court- and temple-based polities in the age of law courts, the printing press, and imperial bureaucracy. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-8171 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12367 |