Blasphemy Rewired: Communal Configurations of the Public Domain in Kerala:

From the punctuated invocations of legal clauses through the 20th and 21st centuries, to the post-2000 vilifications, attacks or murders of/on painters, scholars, students and social activists, allegations of blasphemy have often problematized public spheres across India. In this broad backdrop, nua...

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Published in:Studies in religion
Main Author: Varghese, Mathew A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2019]
In: Studies in religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kerala / Public space / Blasphemy / Communalism / Hinduism / Nationalism
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
KBM Asia
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B public performance
B état néolibéral
B blasphème
B offense
B Blasphemy
B Public Space
B Hegemony
B performance publique
B hégémonie
B Hindutva
B neoliberal state
B Balagokulam
B insulte
B espace public
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Summary:From the punctuated invocations of legal clauses through the 20th and 21st centuries, to the post-2000 vilifications, attacks or murders of/on painters, scholars, students and social activists, allegations of blasphemy have often problematized public spheres across India. In this broad backdrop, nuanced tendencies have emerged (and continue to emerge) in Kerala, a state with a strong history of social reforms and political interventions on institutional networks of religion. The paper will focus on two trajectories: the narrative exclusions and communal vocalizations in select public performances as well as emergent institutional hegemonies that institute parallel orders in contemporary contexts of neoliberal state building.
ISSN:2042-0587
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0008429819825613