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Jakob De Roover
Jakob De Roover
jakob.deroover@ugent.be
Contact details
Department
Department of Comparative Sciences of Culture
Research group(s)
RCVC - Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap
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Projects
Projects as supervisor
The Separation of Temple and State: A Comparative Study of Religious Freedom and Traditional Institutions in India and the West
(
2019
-
2024
)
Developing an outline of India studies. A project for the consolidation of ideas related to India studies and sketching possible future pathways
(
2019
-
2021
)
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
Liberty, tyranny and the will of God: the principle of toleration in early modern Europe and colonial India
(2009
)
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
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
Most recent publications
De Roover, Jakob. “Making Sense of ‘religious’ Texts? Indology, Caste, and the Study of Religion.”
De Natura Fidei : Rethinking Religion across Disciplinary Boundaries
, edited by Mathew George Jibu, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Claerhout, Sarah, and Jakob De Roover. “Religion, Conversion, and Truth : From Europe to India.”
De Natura Fidei : Rethinking Religion across Disciplinary Boundaries
, edited by Mathew George Jibu, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
De Roover, Jakob, and Sarika Rao, editors.
Cultures Differ Differently : Selected Essays of S. N. Balagangadhara
. Routledge, 2021.
Rao, Sarika, and Jakob De Roover. “Studying Other Cultures in the 21st Century.”
Cultures Differ Differently : Selected Essays of S. N. Balagangadhara
, edited by Jakob De Roover and Sarika Rao, Routledge, 2021.
Keppens, Marianne, and Jakob De Roover. “The Brahmin, the Aryan, and the Powers of the Priestly Class : Puzzles in the Study of Indian Religion.”
RELIGIONS
, vol. 11, no. 4, 2020, doi:10.3390/rel11040181.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Comparative Study of Religions
