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Jakob De Roover
Jakob De Roover
jakob.deroover@ugent.be
Department
Dean's Office of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Research group(s)
CCROC - Critical and Comparative Research on Culture
RCVC - Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap
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Projects
Projects as supervisor
Developing an outline of India studies. A project for the consolidation of ideas related to India studies and sketching possible future pathways
(
2019
-
2021
)
The separation of temple and state. A comparative study of religious freedom and traditional institutions in India and the west
(
2019
-
2024
)
Colonial consciousness and the caste system in 20th-century India. A study of the intellectual and institutional impact of orientalist discourse
(
2016
-
2021
)
The art of adultery. An analysis of Samala's collection of stories 'Sudabahomteri' and its cultural setting
(
2016
-
2020
)
Cold war social science and the development of the human sciences in Europe and India
(
2015
-
2016
)
Projects as postdoc
Secularism, colonialism and the Enlightenment. European toleration and the rise of fundamentalism in South Asia
(
2009
-
2012
)
Publications
Key publications
Europe, India, and the limits of secularism
(2015
)
Jakob De Roover
Religious conversion : Indian disputes and their European origins
(2022
)
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
Which fidelity, whose adultery? Minding Manu's verse
(2022
)
Balagangadhara Rao
Sarika Rao
Jakob De Roover
Marianne Keppens
John Locke, Christian liberty, and the predicament of liberal toleration
(2008
)
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
Secular law and the realm of false religion
(2011
)
Jakob De Roover
The secular state and religious conflict: liberal neutrality and the Indian case of pluralism
(2007
)
Balagangadhara Rao
Jakob De Roover
Liberty, tyranny and the will of God: the principle of toleration in early modern Europe and colonial India
(2009
)
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
Most recent publications
De Roover, Jakob. “The British and the Nazis : The Experience of the Colonized.”
Witness to Our Times
, no. 26/01/2022, 2022.
Rao, Sarika, et al. “Zomerreeks Azië : India.”
TERTIO (ANTWERPEN)
, no. 1173–1174, 2022, pp. 8–11.
Claerhout, Sarah, and Jakob De Roover.
Religious Conversion : Indian Disputes and Their European Origins
. Routledge, 2022, doi:10.4324/9781003281269.
Rao, Balagangadhara, et al. “Which Fidelity, Whose Adultery? Minding Manu’s Verse.”
PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST
, vol. 72, no. 3, 2022, pp. 594–625, doi:10.1353/pew.2022.0077.
De Roover, Jakob. “Making Sense of ‘religious’ Texts? Indology, Caste, and the Study of Religion.”
De Natura Fidei : Rethinking Religion across Disciplinary Boundaries, Volume 3
, edited by Jibu Mathew George, Authorspress, 2022, pp. 95–119.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Comparative Study of Religions
