Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India - Class 200: New Studies in Religion - J. Barton Scott - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226824888 - April 5, 2023
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J. Barton Scott
Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India - Class 200: New Studies in Religion

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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 freethought, 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 border between the secular and the sacred.
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272 pages, 15 halftones

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Released April 5, 2023
ISBN13 9780226824888
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 238 × 159 × 23 mm   ·   556 g
Language English  

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