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Anti-Christian Violence in India (Hardcover)
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Anti-Christian Violence in India (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Conflict
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Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if
so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities?
Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, with
particular attention to the 2007-2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha,
Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious violence and
how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity. Is "religious"
conflict sui generis, or is it merely one species of intergroup
conflict? Why and how might violence become an attractive option
for religious actors? What explains the increase in religious
violence over the last twenty to thirty years? Integrating theories
of anti-Christian violence focused on politics, economics, and
proselytization, Anti-Christian Violence in India additionally
weaves in recent theory about globalization and, in particular, the
forms of resistance against Western secular modernity that
globalization periodically helps to provoke. With such theories in
mind, Bauman explores the nature of anti-Christian violence in
India, contending that resistance to secular modernities is, in
fact, an important but often overlooked reason behind Hindu attacks
on Christians. Intensifying the widespread Hindu tendency to think
of religion in ethnic rather than universal terms, the ideology of
Hindutva, or "Hinduness," explicitly rejects both the secular
privatization of religion and the separability of religions from
the communities that incubate them. And so, with provocative and
original analysis, Bauman questions whether anti-Christian violence
in contemporary India is really about religion, in the narrowest
sense, or rather a manifestation of broader concerns among some
Hindus about the Western sociopolitical order with which they
associate global Christianity.
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