Insulting Religion: Penal Secularism and the Government of Feeling

This article revisits the Indian Penal Code's restrictions on religious offense, especially Section 295A, with particular attention to nineteenth-century debates about secularizing the English common law of blasphemy. Building on scholarship that takes the histories of British and Indian secula...

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Subtitles:"Roundtable on Religion as Polity Formation:Revisiting Modern Religion in Imperial India"
Main Author: Scott, J. Barton (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2023
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 91, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-50
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