Finding the Enemy Within : Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan
| Finding the Enemy Within : Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan |
| Autore | Ashraf Sana |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021 |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
9781760464554
1760464554 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Finding the Enemy Within |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910500589503321 |
Ashraf Sana
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| Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Outside the Fold : Conversion, Modernity, and Belief / / Gauri Viswanathan
| Outside the Fold : Conversion, Modernity, and Belief / / Gauri Viswanathan |
| Autore | Viswanathan Gauri |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 332 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina | 291.42 |
| Soggetto topico |
Konversion
Religion Conversion |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Comparative studies. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Advaitism
Anabaptists Anglicanism Bengal Regulations Brahmo Samaj Calvinism Catholics Darwinism Fabian socialism Gorham judgment House of Commons Jainism Jesus Christ Legislative Council administrative rationality age (chronological) agnosticism alienation anarchy backsliding biographical fallacy blasphemy church rates class consciousness colonialism cosmopolitanism dalits democracy disestablishment ecclesiastical authority egalitarianism ethnocentrism excommunication feminism foundationalism fundamentalism gnostic mysticism heirship historiography iconoclasm ideology individualism inheritance joint electorates knowledge-production literary form maintenance materialism miscegenation nationalism occultism orthodoxy ostracism |
| ISBN | 1-4008-4348-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One DISSENT AND THE NATION -- CHAPTER ONE Cross Currents -- CHAPTER TWO A Grammar of Dissent -- Part Two COLONIAL INTERVENTIONS -- CHAPTER THREE Rights of Passage: Converts' Testimonies -- CHAPTER FOUR Silencing Heresy -- CHAPTER FIVE Ethnographic Plots -- CHAPTER SIX Conversion, Theosophy, and Race Theory -- Part Three THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY -- CHAPTER SEVEN Conversion to Equality -- CHAPTER EIGHT Epilogue: The Right to Belief -- Appendix -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248120703316 |
Viswanathan Gauri
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| Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1998 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Profane : sacrilegious expression in a multicultural age / / edited by Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke, David Nash ; foreword by Martin E. Marty
| Profane : sacrilegious expression in a multicultural age / / edited by Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke, David Nash ; foreword by Martin E. Marty |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
| Disciplina | 179/.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Blasphemy
Swearing |
| Soggetto non controllato |
apostasy
art blasphemy cultural studies danish newspaper cartoons defamation digital media electronic media geopolitical studies history human rights interdisciplinary international law islam jacksonian america law literature muslim philip roth political history political theology politics pornography profane images profane texts profanity prophet mohammed religion sacred texts sacred sacrilege sacrilegious expression satire secular democracies sociology theology transnational violence |
| ISBN | 0-520-95822-5 |
| Classificazione | POL010000SOC039000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: On the Modern Confluence of Blasphemy, Free Expression, and Hate Speech -- 1. Thick-Skinned Tolerance: Satire, the Sacred, and the Rise of the Modern -- 2. The Productive Obscene: Philip Roth and the Profanity Loop -- 3. Defaced: The Art of Blaspheming Texts and Images in the West -- 4. Blasphemy and Free Thought in Jacksonian America: The Case of Abner Kneeland -- 5. Secular Blasphemies: Symbolic Offense in Modern Democracy -- 6. Muslim Political Theology: Defamation, Apostasy, and Anathema -- 7. Protesting Sacrilege: Blasphemy and Violence in Muslim-Majority States -- 8. The Indonesian Blasphemy Act: A Legal and Social Analysis -- 9. Profound Offense and Religion in Secular Democracies: An Australian Perspective -- 10. Blasphemy versus Incitement: An International Law Perspective -- Afterword: Blasphemy beyond Modernism -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786616003321 |
| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Profane : sacrilegious expression in a multicultural age / / edited by Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke, David Nash ; foreword by Martin E. Marty
| Profane : sacrilegious expression in a multicultural age / / edited by Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke, David Nash ; foreword by Martin E. Marty |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
| Disciplina | 179/.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Blasphemy
Swearing |
| Soggetto non controllato |
apostasy
art blasphemy cultural studies danish newspaper cartoons defamation digital media electronic media geopolitical studies history human rights interdisciplinary international law islam jacksonian america law literature muslim philip roth political history political theology politics pornography profane images profane texts profanity prophet mohammed religion sacred texts sacred sacrilege sacrilegious expression satire secular democracies sociology theology transnational violence |
| ISBN | 0-520-95822-5 |
| Classificazione | POL010000SOC039000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: On the Modern Confluence of Blasphemy, Free Expression, and Hate Speech -- 1. Thick-Skinned Tolerance: Satire, the Sacred, and the Rise of the Modern -- 2. The Productive Obscene: Philip Roth and the Profanity Loop -- 3. Defaced: The Art of Blaspheming Texts and Images in the West -- 4. Blasphemy and Free Thought in Jacksonian America: The Case of Abner Kneeland -- 5. Secular Blasphemies: Symbolic Offense in Modern Democracy -- 6. Muslim Political Theology: Defamation, Apostasy, and Anathema -- 7. Protesting Sacrilege: Blasphemy and Violence in Muslim-Majority States -- 8. The Indonesian Blasphemy Act: A Legal and Social Analysis -- 9. Profound Offense and Religion in Secular Democracies: An Australian Perspective -- 10. Blasphemy versus Incitement: An International Law Perspective -- Afterword: Blasphemy beyond Modernism -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814244403321 |
| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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