Finding the Enemy Within : Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan
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| Autore: |
Ashraf Sana
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| Titolo: |
Finding the Enemy Within : Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan
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| Pubblicazione: | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021 |
| Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2021 | |
| ©2021 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 297.5695 |
| Soggetto topico: | Religious fundamentalism |
| Blasphemy, heresy, apostasy | |
| Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict | |
| Christianity | |
| Christian spirituality & religious experience | |
| Islam | |
| Religious life & practice | |
| Violence in society | |
| Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Pakistan |
| blasphemy | |
| Islam | |
| violence | |
| religion | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Historical roots of anti-blasphemy violence in Pakistan: Formation of self, community and the state -- 2. Religious discourse concerning blasphemy: Politics of uncertainty and legitimacy -- Part II -- 3. Blasphemy accusations: Power, purity and the enemy within -- 4. Violence in the making: The politics of escalation from accusation to punishment -- Part III -- 5. Legitimate punishment of blasphemy: Contestation between the legal system and popular justice -- 6. At the nexus of state and society: Continuities and discontinuities between the legal system and popular justice -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Text of offences relating to religion (Pakistan Penal Code, 1860) -- Bibliography. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the past decade, Pakistan has witnessed incidents such as the public lynching of a student on a university campus, a Christian couple being torched alive, attacks on entire neighbourhoods by angry mobs and the assassination of a provincial governor by his own security guard over allegations of blasphemy. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Finding the Enemy Within |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Finding the Enemy Within |
| ISBN: | 9781760464554 |
| 1760464554 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910500589503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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