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J. Barton Scott
Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Spiritual Despots, J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant techno
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J. Barton Scott
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The Journal of Asian Studies. 79:529-531
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J. Barton Scott
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The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 6:48-69
The three reflections joined together in this essay develop a notion of “the sociality of secularism”—a phrase that gestures to how secularism structures the social field, becoming an intimate part of the practice of self for subjects who are a
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J. Barton Scott
A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law. Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred invites us to consider how colonial infrastr
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J. Barton Scott
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Modern Intellectual History. 16:803-833
Through an analysis and historical contextualization of Gujarati writer Karsandas Mulji'sTravels in England(1866), this article makes two interrelated arguments. First, Indian liberals' efforts to translate notions of liberty exposed the gap between
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J. Barton Scott
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History of Religions. 57:225-227
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J. Barton Scott
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 35:294-309
This article analyzes a controversial book ban from the 1940s to trace the mutual determinations of print media, the legal regulation of communal sentiment, and the discourse of religious tolerance in late colonial India. Claimed as the Bible of the
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Brannon Dobbs Ingram, J. Barton Scott
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South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 38:357-370
In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller understanding of the specifically South Asian histo
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J. Barton Scott
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South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 38:387-402
This article argues that competing ideas about the nature of public selfhood structured the Maharaj Libel Case, as well as colonial publics more broadly. Jadunathji Maharaj had, in effect, lost his libel suit even before it went to court. For libel l