Slandering the Sacred Slandering the Sacred
Class 200: New Studies in Religion

Slandering the Sacred

Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Religion & Spirituality
RELEASED
2023
5 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Chicago Press
SIZE
4.2
MB

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