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Religious freedom in India : sovereignty and (anti) conversion
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Osuri, Goldie (2013) Religious freedom in India : sovereignty and (anti) conversion. Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series . London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415665575
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Abstract
Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious communities. Extending these concepts to an analysis of historical, political and legal genealogies of conversion, the author demonstrates how a concern for sovereignty links past and present anti-conversion campaigns and laws.
The book illustrates how sovereignty informs the making of secularism as well as religious difference. The focus on sovereignty sheds light on the manner in which religious difference becomes a point of reference for the religio-secular idioms of Bombay cinema, for legal judgements on communal violence, for human rights organizations, and those seeking justice for communal violence. This wide-ranging examination and discussion of the trajectories of (anti) conversion politics through historical, legal, philosophical, popular cultural, archival and ethnographic material offers a cogent argument for shifting the stakes and rethinking the relationship between sovereignty and religious freedom. The book is a timely contribution to broader theoretical and political discussions of (post) secularism and human rights, and is of interest to students and scholars of postcolonial studies, cultural studies, law, and religious studies.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Series Name: | Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
ISBN: | 9780415665575 | ||||
Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 204 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Description: | Date of publication 2013 - confirmed with author, date listed on the publishers website in error. |
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