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

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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

Imperial Systems and Settler Secularism in India and the United States

Tisa Wenger

Yale University

The Imperial West: The Hindu and Protestant Connection

Marko Geslani University of South Carolina

Prophets, Polemics, and Parasitic Nationalism

Deonnie Moodie University of Oklahoma

The Outrage of Modernity: Loss of the Spiritual Self and the Rise of State Rule

Anand Vivek Tenaja Vanderbilt University

The Secular History of Religious Feelings: A Response

J. Barton Scott University of Toronto (author response)