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Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India de J. Barton Scott

Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India: Class 200: New Studies in Religion

Autor J. Barton Scott
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 apr 2023
A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law.
 
Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalized world. Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code), J. Barton Scott weaves a globe-trotting narrative about secularism, empire, insult, and outrage. Decentering white martyrs to free thought, his story calls for new histories of blasphemy that return these thinkers to their imperial context, dismantle the cultural boundaries of the West, and transgress the borders between the secular and the sacred as well as the public and the private.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226824901
ISBN-10: 022682490X
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 15 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Class 200: New Studies in Religion

Notă biografică

J. Barton Scott is associate professor of historical studies and the study of religion at the University of Toronto. He is author of Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

“A landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia, taking the specific case study of Section 295-A of the Indian Penal Code, which prohibits deliberate harm or injury to religious feelings of a community, to raise and address larger and immensely consequential questions connected to the interaction of law, religion, and secular power in India and beyond. A multifaceted intellectual history cum literary analysis of blasphemy law, Slandering the Sacred moves between nineteenth-century and contemporary Britain and India to show that colonial discourses and conceptions of blasphemy were shaped and indebted to the life of this category as it operated among the colonized religious communities of India."

"Scott illuminates the intricate interplay between colonial governance, religious sentiment, and legal frameworks by meticulously tracing the historical trajectory of blasphemy laws in India . . . The book highlights the need to move beyond the simplistic binaries of free speech and blasphemy to understand the complex interplay between law, culture, and religious sentiments in a globalized world."

“Slandering the Sacred offers a gripping voyeuristic account of the sinuous ways in which law’s religion and religion’s law together conspired in the racist and sentimental effort to regulate speech and affect in colonial India, particularly in the strange career of Thomas Macaulay.”

“By rerouting the modern history of blasphemy through late colonial India, this elegant and imaginative book returns empire to the history of secularism as it centers India in the reconception of blasphemy as a secular crime. This richly textured history with many twists and turns is a must-read that cuts through the logjam of contemporary debates about religion and free speech.”

“In this discerning study, Scott recasts South Asia as a major crucible of key ideas about blasphemy that crystallized under British colonial rule. By linking blasphemy laws with secularization in the metropole and colony, he astutely shows that religious offense often obscured the residual violence in state and society. As Scott skillfully argues, law’s putative management of public feelings provided an alibi for solidifying colonialism’s grip on civil society, spilling over into the postcolonial state’s mediation of religious differences.”

“Scott has written a book as witty as it is scholarly. Slandering the Sacred is an enthralling and colorful history of a law, a page-turner about a penal code: this is an impressive feat.".