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Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment

Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment

Lazzaretti, Vera
Frøystad, Kathinka

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Religion General General SociologyIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1032252839
ISBN13: 9781032252834
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.85 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

Much of the scholarship dealing with religious offence in South Asia focuses on the unintended effects of blasphemy laws, showing, for instance, that laws presumably intended to promote religious tolerance end up informing, if not encouraging, disputes around religious sensitivities. But while debates about the effects of law are crucial, this collection widens the scope of the enquiry by suggesting that a more nuanced understanding of religious offence can be gained by looking past full-blown legal proceedings and the spectacular violence performed in the streets during religious offence controversies. Drawing on the extensive empirical field research of six scholars of religion and politics, this book directs attention to frictions around religious sensitivities that are handled and often mitigated locally--either entirely outside the courts or through bottom-up initiatives that unfold in combination with, or as a reaction to, top-down measures. While documenting a range of containment modalities in diverse geographical and socio-religious settings in India and scrutinising their functioning and outcomes, the book is a first attempt to bridge research on religious offence with critical understandings of peace and scholarship on the micro-mechanisms of coexistence.

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