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By J. Barton Scott

Historians of faith have tested at size the Protestant Reformation and the liberal suggestion of the self-governing person who arose from it. In Spiritual Despots, J. Barton Scott unearths an unexamined piece of this tale: how Protestant applied sciences of asceticism grew to become entangled with Hindu non secular practices to create a great of the “self-ruling topic” the most important to either nineteenth-century reform tradition and early twentieth-century anticolonialism in India. Scott makes use of the old fashioned time period “priestcraft” to trace anticlerical polemics that vilified spiritual hierarchy, celebrated the person, and endeavored to reform human topics by way of liberating them from exterior non secular effect. by way of drawing on English, Hindi, and Gujarati reformist writings, Scott presents a wide ranging view of accurately how the threat of the artful priest reworked faith and politics in India.

Through this substitute family tree of the self-ruling topic, Spiritual Despots demonstrates that Hindu reform activities can't be understood completely in the precolonial culture, yet really must be learn along different pursuits in their interval. The book’s concentration strikes fluidly among Britain and India—engaging thinkers resembling James Mill, Keshub Chunder Sen, Max Weber, Karsandas Mulji, Helena Blavatsky, M. okay. Gandhi, and others—to exhibit how colonial Hinduism formed significant glossy discourses concerning the self. all through, Scott sheds much-needed gentle how the rhetoric of priestcraft and practices of worldly asceticism performed a very important position in making a new ethical and political order for twentieth-century India and demonstrates the significance of viewing the emergence of secularism during the colonial encounter.

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