Slandering the Sacred : Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Class 200: New Studies in Religion
ISBN-10
0226824888
ISBN-13
9780226824888
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 5th, 2023
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
556 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.80 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
NoneIslamic law
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A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law. Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalized world. Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code), J. Barton Scott weaves a globe-trotting narrative about secularism, empire, insult, and outrage. Decentering white martyrs to free thought, his story calls for new histories of blasphemy that return these thinkers to their imperial context, dismantle the cultural boundaries of the West, and transgress the borders between the secular and the sacred as well as the public and the private.
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