Minority Vulnerability in South Asia and China: Towards a Post-Nationalist Imagination
In recent years, a global tilt toward rightist majoritarianism has made Muslim and Christian minorities of Asia more vulnerable to violence and displacement. China’s program of “de-extremification” among the Uyghurs, Myanmar’s military operations against the Rohingya, and Hindutva-inspired violence...
| Published in: | International journal of Asian christianity |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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International journal of Asian christianity
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| Further subjects: | B
Myanmar’s Rohingya
B Islamo-Christian solidarity B bjp and Muslims B minority vulnerability B China’s Uyghurs |
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| Summary: | In recent years, a global tilt toward rightist majoritarianism has made Muslim and Christian minorities of Asia more vulnerable to violence and displacement. China’s program of “de-extremification” among the Uyghurs, Myanmar’s military operations against the Rohingya, and Hindutva-inspired violence in India illustrate strong-handed homogenizing impulses, even by governments that profess to embrace diversity. By examining these different contexts through a common lens, it becomes possible to recognize recurring patterns and think beyond the nation-state as the only framework for addressing minority vulnerability. After comparing Muslim and Christian vulnerability across a variety of Asian contexts, the essay explores the possibility of “Islamo-Christian” solidarity in the face of majoritarian violence. This new alignment defies a longstanding imperialist framework, whose geopolitics pits a Christian West against a Muslim other. It also embraces an ethic of empathy that transcends the language of “religious freedom” – a principle arising from the same geopolitics that manufactured majority-minority distinctions to begin with. |
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| ISSN: | 2542-4246 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Asian christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25424246-06010003 |