1st Edition
Religious Freedom in India Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion
By Goldie Osuri
Copyright 2013
216 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. (Anti) Conversion as Exception: Genealogies 2. (Anti) Conversion: Transnational Bio/Necropolitical Engagements 3. Sovereignty and the Indian Secular 4. What’s Love Got to do with it? Sovereignty and Conversion 5. Profaning Religious Freedom
Biography
Goldie Osuri is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at The University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include analyses of nationalisms and transnational movements in relation to race, gender, ethnicity, and religion through poststructuralist and postcolonial theoretical approaches.
