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

• Autore: Osuri Goldie
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.44/20954
• Soggetto topico: Conversion - Hinduism; Freedom of religion - India; Nationalism - Religious aspects - Hinduism; Religion and politics - India; Sovereignty - Religious aspects - Hinduism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Religious freedom in India
• ISBN: 1-136-30202-6; 1-283-60558-9; 9786613918031; 1-136-30203-4; 0-203-11706-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785893003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series