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Jakob De Roover
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2025
Horrors of Colonial Rule – Two European witnesses
Jakob De Roover
Martin Farek
Blog post
2025
Welcome to ESIND
Jakob De Roover
Martin Farek
Blog post
2025
2022
Making sense of 'religious' texts? Indology, caste, and the study of religion
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
De natura fidei : rethinking religion across disciplinary boundaries, volume 3
2022
Religion, conversion, and truth : from Europe to India
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
De natura fidei : rethinking religion across disciplinary boundaries, volume 3
2022
Religious conversion : Indian disputes and their European origins
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
Book
2022
The British and the Nazis : the experience of the colonized
Jakob De Roover
Blog post
2022
Which fidelity, whose adultery? Minding Manu's verse
Balagangadhara Rao
Sarika Rao
Jakob De Roover
Marianne Keppens
A1
Journal Article
in
PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST
2022
Zomerreeks Azië : India
Sarika Rao
Jakob De Roover
Nele De Gersem
Article in a magazine
2022
2021
Cultures differ differently : selected essays of S. N. Balagangadhara
Book editor
2021
Introduction : studying other cultures in the twenty-first century
Sarika Rao
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
Cultures differ differently : selected essays of S. N. Balagangadhara
2021
Ironies of India : a scientific temperament as a prelude to conversion?
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
Blog post
2021
2020
India's Daughter and BBC
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
BHASHA BHARATHI
2020
The Brahmin, the Aryan, and the powers of the priestly class : puzzles in the study of Indian religion
Marianne Keppens
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
RELIGIONS
2020
2019
A new school in the study of India?
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA
2019
Religious freedom and cultural asymmetry : some pitfalls of secularism
Jakob De Roover
A2
Journal Article
in
SIKH FORMATIONS - RELIGION CULTURE THEORY
2019
Religious freedom and the limits of propagation : conversion in the constituent assembly of India
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
RELIGIONS
2019
2017
A nation of tribes and priests : the Jews and the immorality of the caste system
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
Western foundations of the Caste system
2017
Scheduled Castes vs. Caste Hindus : about a colonial distinction and its legal impact
Jakob De Roover
A2
Journal Article
in
SOCIO-LEGAL REVIEW
2017
2016
On the road to renaissance
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HINDU STUDIES
2016
Taking Rohith Vemula Seriously: Blame corruption not caste
Jakob De Roover
Other
2016
2015
Between Ignorance and Deception: Satish Deshpande’s idea of reservations
Jakob De Roover
Other
2015
De pest van het rabiate nationalisme
Jakob De Roover
Sarika Rao
Newsarticle
2015
Europe, India, and the limits of secularism
Jakob De Roover
Book
2015
India: verkrachting van een land
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2015
Radicalisering: een magisch woord?
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2015
Rape of a Country
Jakob De Roover
Other
2015
The Caste Connection : on the sacred foundations of social hierarchy
Jakob De Roover
Sarah Claerhout
A2
Journal Article
in
THEATRUM HISTORIAE
2015
The Magic of ‘Radicalization’?
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2015
Wat betekent dat: een toekomstperspectief geven aan kandidaat-terroristen?
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2015
Why Ambedkar Was Wrong about Hinduism
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2015
2014
A Disturbing Story: Response to l'Affaire Doniger
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2014
Blinded by Ideology
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2014
Incurably religious? Consensus gentium and the cultural universality of religion
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
NUMEN-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
2014
Introduction
Jakob De Roover
Sarah Claerhout
Editorial material
2014
Orientalism and the puzzle of the Aryan invasion theory
Marianne Keppens
Jakob De Roover
A2
Journal Article
in
PRAGMATA : JOURNAL OF HUMAN SCIENCES
2014
Untangling the Knot: On l'Affaire Doniger
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2014
2013
The dark hour of secularism: Hindu fundamentalism and colonial liberalism in India
Balagangadhara Rao
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
Making sense of the secular : critical perspectives from Europe to Asia
2013
2012
Religion, difference and the promise of liberal political theory: on Abeysekara's the politics of postsecular religion
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
RELIGION
2012
2011
Hoe wereldvreemd zijn de Belgische politici?
Jakob De Roover
Sarah Claerhout
Newsarticle
2011
La paradoja de la tolerancia moderna en sus inicios: de Europa a la India
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Forjadores de la Tolerancia
2011
Liberal political theory and the cultural migration of ideas: the case of secularism in India
Jakob De Roover
Sarah Claerhout
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
POLITICAL THEORY
2011
Secular law and the realm of false religion
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
After secular law
2011
2010
Secularism, Vasaahatushaahitva mattu Bhaaratiya Buddhijivigalu
Jakob De Roover
Prajna SL
Bookchapter
in
Sampreethi
2010
The colonial construction of what?
Jakob De Roover
Sarah Claerhout
Bookchapter
in
Rethinking religion in India : the colonial construction of Hinduism
2010
The saint, the criminal and the terrorist: towards a hypothesis on terrorism
Balagangadhara Rao
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
2010
2009
Het gevaar van de hoofddoek
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2009
Liberty, tyranny and the will of God: the principle of toleration in early modern Europe and colonial India
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
2009
Why terrorists bite the hand that feeds them
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
Other
2009
2008
'Superieur' Europa wiegt zichzelf in slaap
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2008
Conversion of the World: Proselytization in India and the Universalisation of Christianity
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets and Culture Wars
2008
Does Europe have a civilising mission in India?
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
New Europe: The European Weekly
2008
Europa moet ophouden met betuttelen
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2008
John Locke, Christian liberty, and the predicament of liberal toleration
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
POLITICAL THEORY
2008
No point in banning headscarves and turbans
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
THE IRISH TIMES (INTERNATIONAL ED.)
2008
Rethinking colonialism and colonial consciousness: the case of modern India
Balagangadhara Rao
Esther Bloch
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
Forms of knowledge in India : critical revaluations
2008
The Indian Jews
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
Outlookindia.com
2008
Viewing the headscarf as just a piece of clothing can stop us getting tied up in knots
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
THE IRISH TIMES (INTERNATIONAL ED.)
2008
Vlaanderen en India
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
Newsarticle
2008
2007
Antibekeringswetten zetten India in rep en roer
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
Article in a magazine
2007
Facing the Challenge of American Pluralism: On the Future of the NRI Community
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
India-Forum.com
2007
The Swami, the Priest and the Rediscovery of the Indian Traditions: A Reply to Chitra Raman
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
India-Forum.com
2007
The secular state and religious conflict: liberal neutrality and the Indian case of pluralism
Balagangadhara Rao
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
2007
2006
Courting Controversy in the West
Jakob De Roover
A2
Journal Article
in
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY.
2006
Towards a Positive Portrayal of the Hindu Traditions? The NRI Community and the California Textbook Controversy
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
India-Forum.com
2006
2005
The Question of Conversion in India
Sarah Claerhout
Jakob De Roover
A2
Journal Article
in
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY.
2005
2004
Secularism, Colonialism and The Indian Intellectuals
Jakob De Roover
A4
Journal Article
in
India-Forum.com
2004
2003
An unhappy lover of theology: Feuerbach and contemporary religious studies
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION
2003
The Vacuity of Secularism: On the Indian Debate and Its Western Origins
Jakob De Roover
A2
Journal Article
in
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY.
2003
2002
Secularism and Absence of Theory
Jakob De Roover
A2
Journal Article
in
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY.
2002