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082			_a2:321.01(540) _bSRI
100			_aSrikantan, Geetanjali _95413
245			_aIdentifying and regulating religion in India _b: law, history and the place of worship
260			_aN.Delhi _bCambridge Uni. Pr. _c2020
300			_aviii, 251p.
505			_a Introduction -- Secularisation and Theologisation : The Making of 'Hindu Law' and British Colonialism -- The Role of Legal Hermeneutics as Secularisation in the Formation of Anglo-Muhammadan Law -- Influences and Confluences : The Theological Foundations of Western Property Law and the Place of Worship in India -- Identifying 'Doctrine' : Tracing Theologisation in Legal Narratives of the Place of Worship in India -- Rethinking Definitions : Hinduism as Religion in the Indian Supreme Court -- Conclusion.
520			_a"The inability to define religion and consequently protect religious freedom has been a question that has preoccupied Indian courts. This book investigates the identification and regulation of religion through an intellectual history of law's creation of religion from the colonial to the post-colonial. Moving beyond conventional explanations on the failure of secularism and the secular state, it argues that the impasse in the legal regulation of religion lies in the methodologies and frameworks used by British colonial administrators in identifying and governing religion. Drawing on insights from post-colonial theory and religious studies, it demonstrates the role of secular legal reasoning in the background of Western intellectual history and Christian theology through an illustration of the place of worship. The book then traces the evolution of the place of worship by showing how legal ideas and processes lead to an understanding of religion being determined by doctrine which is inherited by the modern legal system. It further examines the consequences of the conception that religion is dependent on a set of doctrines through a landmark litigation in the Indian legal system showing that the roots behind religion's ungovernability lies within its governance"-- Provided by publisher.
650			_aReligion and state--India--History _95414
650			_aSacred space--Law and legislation--India--History _95415
650			_aIndia--History--British occupation, 1765-1947 _95416
942			_cBK