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Author Osuri, Goldie

Title Religious Freedom in India : Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
Contents 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
Summary 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 secularism as wel
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Subject Conversion -- Hinduism.
Freedom of religion -- India
Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Religion and politics -- India
Sovereignty -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Conversion -- Hinduism
Freedom of religion
Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
Religion and politics
Sovereignty -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136302039
1136302034