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Religious Freedom in India - Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,673
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Religious Freedom in India - Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion (Paperback): Goldie Osuri

Religious Freedom in India - Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion (Paperback)

Goldie Osuri

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

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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.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Release date: May 2017
First published: 2013
Authors: Goldie Osuri
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-10923-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Religious freedom
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
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LSN: 1-138-10923-1
Barcode: 9781138109230

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