Religious Freedom in India : Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion

ISBN-13: 9780415665575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 216 str.

Goldie Osuri

Opis

This book addresses the question of conversion in India and its relationship to religious freedom by examining how this relationship is expressed in the discourses of law (Freedom of Religion Acts), anti-conversion campaigns, popular cultural texts, in the language of those who convert, and in secularist and human rights statements. Some key questions that the book raises are: Are the discourses of religious freedom as they have been currently formulated internationally adequate to the task of protecting it in the Indian context? Is there a different way of thinking about religious freedom which will enable a more just approach to religious difference? This book will make a contribution to the fields of postcolonial studies, cultural studies, law, and religious studies.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Goldie Osuri is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research interests include analyses of nationalisms and transnational movements in relation to race, ethnicity, and religion through poststructuralist and postcolonial theoretical approaches.