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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785893003321

Autore

Osuri Goldie

Titolo

Religious freedom in India : sovereignty and (anti) conversion / / Goldie Osuri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-30202-6

1-283-60558-9

9786613918031

1-136-30203-4

0-203-11706-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 60

Disciplina

323.44/20954

Soggetti

Conversion - Hinduism

Freedom of religion - India

Nationalism - Religious aspects - Hinduism

Religion and politics - India

Sovereignty - Religious aspects - Hinduism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; Epilogue: conversion as profanation; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 secular