Slandering the sacred: blasphemy law and religious affect in colonial India
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Secularizing Blasphemy -- Part One: The Merry Prophet -- 2. A Crisis of the Public: The Rajpal Affair and Its Bodies -- 3. Secularism, High and Low: Making the Blasphemy Bill -- Part Two: Blasphemy's Empire -- 4. Codifying Blasphemy: "Religious Feeling...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press
2023
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| En: | Año: 2023 |
| Críticas: | [Rezension von: Scott, J. Barton, Slandering the sacred : blasphemy law and religious affect in colonial India] (2025) (Alam, Asiya)
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| Colección / Revista: | Class 200: New Studies in Religion Series
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| Otras palabras clave: | B
Electronic books
B Blasphemy-Law and legislation-India-History-19th century |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | No electrónico
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| Sumario: | Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Secularizing Blasphemy -- Part One: The Merry Prophet -- 2. A Crisis of the Public: The Rajpal Affair and Its Bodies -- 3. Secularism, High and Low: Making the Blasphemy Bill -- Part Two: Blasphemy's Empire -- 4. Codifying Blasphemy: "Religious Feelings" between Colony and Metropole -- 5. Macaulay Unmanned, or, Tom Governs His Feelings -- 6. Libeling Religion: Secularism and the Intimacy of Insult -- Part Three: Polemics as Ethics -- 7. Printing Pain, Ruling Sentiment: A Brief History of Arya Insult -- 8. The Arya Penal Code: Law and the Practice of Documentary Religion -- 9. The Swami and the Prophet: Slandering Lives, Conducting Character -- 10. Conclusion: A Feeling for "Religion" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Notas: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (301 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0226824896 |