Contingency in the Age of Religion: The Hajj and Religion-Making in Colonial and Postcolonial India
In Union of India v. Bhikan (2012), the Indian Supreme Court ruled that government hajj subsidies violated the Indian Constitution’s secular principles. What is notable about this decision is that the Supreme Court based the ruling on its own interpretation of the Qur’an, privileging direct access t...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
Brill
2015
|
In: |
Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 247-277 |
Further subjects: | B
Islam
India
hajj
colonialism
law
secularism
|
Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
MARC
LEADER | 00000caa a22000002 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | 1539668916 | ||
003 | DE-627 | ||
005 | 20220604122556.0 | ||
007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
008 | 160517s2015 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
024 | 7 | |a 10.1163/15700682-12341342 |2 doi | |
035 | |a (DE-627)1539668916 | ||
035 | |a (DE-576)469668911 | ||
035 | |a (DE-599)BSZ469668911 | ||
040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rakwb | ||
041 | |a eng | ||
084 | |a 0 |2 ssgn | ||
100 | 1 | |a Elfenbein, Caleb |4 aut | |
109 | |a Elfenbein, Caleb |a Elfenbein, Caleb Iyer | ||
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Contingency in the Age of Religion: The Hajj and Religion-Making in Colonial and Postcolonial India |
264 | 1 | |c 2015 | |
300 | |a Online-Ressource | ||
336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
520 | |a In Union of India v. Bhikan (2012), the Indian Supreme Court ruled that government hajj subsidies violated the Indian Constitution’s secular principles. What is notable about this decision is that the Supreme Court based the ruling on its own interpretation of the Qur’an, privileging direct access to scripture over historically established practices surrounding the pilgrimage in discerning what “Islam says” about the state’s proper role in the hajj. Archival and legal research shows that Union of India v. Bhikan is merely the latest moment in over a century of colonial and postcolonial debates about pilgrimage management. This article employs the theoretical and methodological insights of Jonathan Z. Smith and Talal Asad to explore this history and its effects, using the matter of hajj administration to identify the concrete implications of different methods of “religion-making,” or the construction of religion as an object for consideration and regulation, in the public sphere. | ||
601 | |a Religion | ||
650 | 4 | |a Islam |x India |x hajj |x colonialism |x law |x secularism | |
773 | 0 | 8 | |i In |t Method & theory in the study of religion |d Leiden : Brill, 1989 |g 27(2015), 3, Seite 247-277 |h Online-Ressource |w (DE-627)34189656X |w (DE-600)2069397-7 |w (DE-576)100668399 |x 1570-0682 |7 nnns |
773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:27 |g year:2015 |g number:3 |g pages:247-277 |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341342 |x Verlag |3 Volltext |
935 | |a mteo | ||
951 | |a AR | ||
ELC | |a 1 | ||
ITA | |a 1 |t 1 | ||
LOK | |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 | ||
LOK | |0 001 2924767059 | ||
LOK | |0 003 DE-627 | ||
LOK | |0 004 1539668916 | ||
LOK | |0 005 20170808152105 | ||
LOK | |0 008 160517||||||||||||||||ger||||||| | ||
LOK | |0 040 |a DE-Tue135 |c DE-627 |d DE-Tue135 | ||
LOK | |0 092 |o n | ||
LOK | |0 852 |a DE-Tue135 | ||
LOK | |0 852 1 |9 00 | ||
LOK | |0 935 |a bril | ||
ORI | |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw | ||
REL | |a 1 | ||
STA | 0 | 0 | |a Islam,Islam |
STB | 0 | 0 | |a Islam,Islam |
STC | 0 | 0 | |a Islam,Islam |
STD | 0 | 0 | |a Islam,Islam |
STE | 0 | 0 | |a 伊斯兰教,伊斯兰教,回教,回教 |
STF | 0 | 0 | |a 伊斯蘭教,伊斯蘭教,回教,回教 |
STG | 0 | 0 | |a Islã,Islã |
STH | 0 | 0 | |a Ислам (мотив),Ислам |
STI | 0 | 0 | |a Ισλάμ (μοτίβο),Ισλάμ |
SUB | |a REL | ||
SYE | 0 | 0 | |a Islam |