Taking note of the widespread usage of terms such as puritan, puritanical, and puritanism in the study of modern religious movements in South Asia, this essay builds upon the work of J. Barton Scott and Anna Tsing to open up reflection on the trans-colonial passage and critical operation of such terms. Learning that Max Weber's famous invocation of the Protestant ethic was preceded by colonial-era reflections on puritanism in South Asia, we are led to explore patterns of connectivity and friction associated with the global circulation of discourse surrounding the puritan. By coining (after Scott) the concept of a puritan assemblage and considering how it shapes scholarship on the Swaminarayan Sampraday and the Brahmo Samaj, we call attention to the way processes of redescription and translation work to create enabling and exclusionary frames for understanding modern Hinduism.

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印度的许多清教徒：现代印度教研究中的连通性和摩擦

注意到清教徒，清教徒和清教徒之类的术语在南亚现代宗教运动研究中的广泛使用，本文以J. Barton Scott和Anna Tsing的工作为基础，对跨殖民主义进行了反思。这些条款的通过和批判性操作。得知马克斯·韦伯（Max Weber）对新教徒伦理的著名援引是在殖民时代对南亚清教徒主义的反思之前，我们被引导探索与围绕清教徒的话语的全球传播相关的联系和摩擦模式。通过（在斯科特之后）创造清教徒组合的概念，并考虑它如何塑造Swaminarayan Sampraday和Brahmo Samaj的奖学金，