Religious Freedom in India

Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion

Goldie Osuri

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Routledge
31 May 2017

Religion & politics; Religious freedom & freedom of worship

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

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 well as religious difference. The focus on sovereignty sheds light on the manner in which religious difference becomes a point of reference for the religio-secular idioms of Bombay cinema, for legal judgements on communal violence, for human rights organizations, and those seeking justice for communal violence. This wide-ranging examination and discussion of the trajectories of (anti) conversion politics through historical, legal, philosophical, popular cultural, archival and ethnographic material offers a cogent argument for shifting the stakes and rethinking the relationship between sovereignty and religious freedom. The book is a timely contribution to broader theoretical and political discussions of (post) secularism and human rights, and is of interest to students and scholars of postcolonial studies, cultural studies, law, and religious studies.

By: Goldie Osuri
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138109230
ISBN 10: 1138109231
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 31 May 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Goldie Osuri is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at The University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include analyses of nationalisms and transnational movements in relation to race, gender, ethnicity, and religion through poststructuralist and postcolonial theoretical approaches.