A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is 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.
University of Chicago Press, 2023
Contributors
Traditions and Tensions: Islam in Modern South Asia SherAli Tareen Franklin and Marshal College
Prohibited Speech: Colonialism, Blasphemy, and Communal Violence Arvind-Pal S. Mandair University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor
Tisa Wenger
Yale University
Marko Geslani University of South Carolina
Deonnie Moodie University of Oklahoma
Anand Vivek Tenaja Vanderbilt University
J. Barton Scott University of Toronto (author response)
