"Spiritual Despots" by historian of religion J. Barton Scott zeroes in on the quaint term priestcraft to track anticlerical polemics in Britain and South Asia during the colonial period. Scott s aim is to show how anticlerical rhetoric spread through the colonies alongside ideas about modern secular subjectivity. Through close readings of texts in English, Hindi, and Gujarati, he shows in compelling detail how the critique of priestly conspiracy gave rise to a new ideal of the self-disciplining subject and a vision of ...
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"Spiritual Despots" by historian of religion J. Barton Scott zeroes in on the quaint term priestcraft to track anticlerical polemics in Britain and South Asia during the colonial period. Scott s aim is to show how anticlerical rhetoric spread through the colonies alongside ideas about modern secular subjectivity. Through close readings of texts in English, Hindi, and Gujarati, he shows in compelling detail how the critique of priestly conspiracy gave rise to a new ideal of the self-disciplining subject and a vision of modern Hinduism that was based on unmediated personal experience and self-regulation rather than priestly tutelary power. "Spiritual Despots" offers a new perspective on what some scholars have called Protestant Hinduism, and, more broadly, contributes to the emerging field of post-secular studies by shedding light on the colonial genealogy of secular subjectivity."
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