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

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Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment

Edited By Vera Lazzaretti, Kathinka Frøystad Copyright 2023
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Rethinking religious offence and its containment: towards a new research agenda

Kathinka Frøystad and Vera Lazzaretti

2. Ritual remedies: overcoming murder in a South Indian temple

Ute Hüsken

3. Ritualising offence: mitigating re-enactment of sectarian rivalry in Kanchipuram

Kerstin Schier

4. Beyond demarcations: handling a sensitive hagiography of a medieval Sufi saint in Modi’s India

Ronie Parciack

5. A dialogue of shrines: eclipsing offence in Amritsar’s Heritage Street

Radhika Chopra

6. Raising alarm or swallowing hurt? The case of a broken deity tile in Kanpur

Kathinka Frøystad

7. ‘We know how to behave and that’s why we feel safe’: peace and insecurity in Banaras

Vera Lazzaretti

Biography

Vera Lazzaretti is Researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon, currently working on heritage and security in urban South Asia. Her research interests include the anthropology of space and place, religion and politics, heritage, securitisation and policing, religious violence, pilgrimage, religious nationalism, inequality, and ethnography.

Kathinka Frøystad is an anthropologist and Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway, specialising in everyday religious complexity in Northern India. Her research interests include new religious formations, religious nationalism, ritual engagement beyond ‘official’ religious boundaries as well as the anthropological field methods through which such phenomena may be studied.

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