Identifying and Regulating Religion in India: Law, History and the Place of Worship
This book takes up the challenge of legally defining religion in contemporary India by investigating the intellectual history of colonial law.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge
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2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Srikantan, Geetanjali, ca. 20./21. Jh., Identifying and regulating religion in India] (2022) (Sen, Ronojoy)
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| Further subjects: | B
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B Religion and state-India-History B Sacred space-Law and legislation-India-History B India-History-British occupation, 1765-1947 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781108840538 |
| Summary: | This book takes up the challenge of legally defining religion in contemporary India by investigating the intellectual history of colonial law. Cover -- Identifying and Regulating Religion in India -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Regulating Religion: Challenging Contemporary Perspectives -- Defining Religion in Law and the Way Forward -- Redrawing Connections between Religious Studies and Post-Colonial Theory -- Recognising Legal Theory in Legal History -- The Scheme of the Book -- 1 Secularisation and Theologisation: The Making of 'Hindu Law' and British Colonialism -- Introduction -- Customs, Texts and Codes: Questions about the Colonial Encounter with the Category of Hindu Law -- Are Religious Texts Legal Texts? -- The Controversy over Custom -- The Dynamic of Secularisation within the Legal Epistemology of Custom and Its Interface with Christian Theology and Western Legal History -- The Status of Custom in Western Legal History and Its Application in Colonial Law -- The Dynamic of Custom and the Normative Order Generated by Christianity -- The Role of Law in the Normative Order -- The Structure of the Dynamic in Colonial Judgments on Hindu Law and the Emergence of Theologisation -- Reading Judicial Decisions on Custom in Colonial Law: The 'Collector of Madura' Case -- The Structure of the Dialectic -- The Cultural Background of Theologisation in the Making of Hindu Law and Its Interface with Historical Jurisprudence -- Theologisation and Its Conceptual Units -- The Biblical Framework behind Historical Jurisprudence and the Aryan Invasion -- The Unfolding of the Biblical Framework in the Discovery of Hindu Law -- Rethinking Codification: Theology, Jurisprudence and the Making of Secular Legal Systems -- Conclusion -- 2 The Role of Legal Hermeneutics as Secularisation in the Formation of Anglo-Muhammadan Law -- Introduction: Colonial Inheritances. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1108901158 |