Peculiarities of the Realm of Religion in British India : Rammohun Roy Reconsidered(Modernization and Religion in Asia,THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTY-NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES)

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  • 英領インドにおける「宗教」領域の問題性 : ラームモーハン・ローイの再検討(アジアの近代化と宗教,<特集>第六十九回学術大会紀要)
  • 英領インドにおける「宗教」領域の問題性--ラームモーハン・ローイの再検討
  • エイリョウ インド ニ オケル シュウキョウ リョウイキ ノ モンダイセイ ラームモーハン ローイ ノ サイケントウ

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Rammohan Roy, often called the "Father of Modern India" can be compared with Fukuzawa Yukichi (1834-1901), a great educationist and modernizer of Japanese society in the Meiji period. Superficially, however, there is a wide difference between them. While the former was a well-known religious reformer, the latter would be regarded as a staunch opponent of religion. This paper tries to show their similar personality and thoughts by means of their similar attitude towards Unitarianism. Though Roy had every qualification for the status of a full-fledged ideologue in various spheres of a modern nation-state, he was obliged to emerge primarily in the form of a socio-religious reformer. The realm of religion in British India was inseparably tied with social problems. Despite all his constraints, Roy's time (still in early modern waiting for the dawn of the modern age) and milieu enabled him to act with a freer hand than his followers. Roy had an intimate and unique relationship with modern Unitarianism in the making. Not only did he imbibe inspiration and ideas from it but also contributed much to its evolution. Throughout the nineteenth century Brahmo Samaj, the formation of which was inspired by Roy, kept close communications with Unitarians abroad.

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