[Reader-list] Invitation to a Lecture by Robert Yelle on 9 January 2017 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a lecture





*Disenchantment: *

European Origins and South Asian Consequences

by *Robert Yelle*





*Rajeev Bhargava *will Chair

Monday, 9 January 2017, 4.30 pm
                              *RSVP*

CSDS Seminar Room,
                                    Tel: 011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
                                                       Fax: 011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 4 pm
                                           email: jaya at csds.in




While the universal applicability of European understandings of secularism
can be debated, recent historical research establishes the origin of Max
Weber’s account of the “disenchantment” of the world in earlier theological
claims that, with the death of Christ on the cross, the oracles were
silenced, miracles ceased, and the Gospel replaced the Mosaic law. Weber’s
master narrative of modernization uncannily resembled Christian narratives
of supersession, calling into question the very distinction between
religion and the secular. I will trace the genealogy of these narratives
and their application in India, where British Protestants attacked Hindu
mythology, ritual, and law.



*Robert Yelle* is Chair of the Interfaculty Program in Religious Studies at
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. He received a BA at Harvard, a JD at
Berkeley, and a PhD in History of Religions at Chicago. Recipient of a
fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he is the
author of, among other publications, *The Disenchantment of Language* (Oxford,
2013).



*Rajeev Bhargava *is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.


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Praveen Rai
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Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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