RT Article
T1 Secular power, law and the politics of religious sentiments
JF Critical research on religion
VO 3
IS 1
SP 57
OP 71
A1 Saeed, Sadia
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1662789319
AB This paper undertakes a political sociology of religious sentiments by examining how social actors seek to make their religious sentiments legible and authoritative within structures of modern state governance. It argues that a central dimension of religious politics consists of struggles over constituting hegemonic and common sense religious sentiments through drawing on the secular powers of the modern state. This politics entails contestations over how citizens ought to feel, and how the state ought to authorize certain religious sentiments, with respect to socially resonant religious issues and events. Drawing on concrete historical episodes from colonial India and postcolonial Pakistan that allow a problematization of 'religious sentiments of Muslims' in relation to the controversial religious views of the reformist Ahmadiyya movement, this paper further demonstrates the elasticity of the modern state to accommodate and embed a range of religious sensibilities, affects and emotive responses through legal arguments about public order.
K1 Law
K1 Pakistan
K1 Colonial India
K1 Postcolonial
K1 Religious Nationalism
K1 Secularism
DO 10.1177/2050303215577489