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| Was Aśoka Really a Secularist Avant-la-Lettre? Ancient Indian Pluralism and Toleration in Historical Perspective | ||
| 作者 | Yelle, Robert A. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Modern Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.56 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2022.05 |
| 頁次 | 749 - 775 |
| 出版者 | Cambridge University Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.journals.cambridge.org |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. The Subtitle of the Journal: Sulh-i Kull as an Oath of Peace: Mughal Political Theology in History, Theory, and Comparison. 2. Author Affiliation: LMU Munich, Germany. |
| 關鍵詞 | Aśoka; Rajeev Bhargava; Thomas Hobbes; secularism; toleration |
| 摘要 | Focusing on Rajeev Bhargava's claim that Aśoka was a secularist avant-la-lettre, I dispute the common understanding of secularism as the separation of religion and politics, and argue instead that such separation, to the extent that it existed, was characteristic of traditional religious societies. I then offer an alternative history of secularism as the demise of the traditional balance of power between church and state, and the rise of a unitary state which incorporated a civil religion that excluded competing forms of religiosity within its domain. This model of secularism, exemplified by the seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, fits Aśoka's Dhamma better than the separationist model does. |
| 目次 | Abstract 749 Keywords 749 Introduction 749 Aśoka as both lens and projection screen for contemporary debates over secularism 750 Separation isn't secular, and secularism isn't separation 759 Aśoka as secularist, redux 769 Conclusions 774 Acknowledgements 775 Competing interests 775 |
| ISSN | 0026749X (P); 14698099 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0026749X21000160 |
| 點閱次數 | 71 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.06.19 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.06.20 |
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