- Title Pages
- The Cultural Lives of Law
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- After Secular Law
- Introduction
-
Chapter One Moses' Veil -
Chapter Two Secular Law and the Realm of False Religion -
Chapter Three Assenting to the Law -
Chapter Four National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688 -
Chapter Five “intolerance of Intolerance” in the Unitarian Controversy -
Chapter Six The University and the Advent of the Academic Secular -
Chapter Seven Stasiology -
Chapter Eight Against Sovereign Impunity -
Chapter Nine Sovereign Power and Secular Indeterminacy -
Chapter Ten The Ruse of Law -
Chapter Eleven The Religio-Secular Continuum -
Chapter Twelve “The Spirits Were Always Watching” -
Chapter Thirteen Secular Speech and Popular Passions -
Chapter Fourteen Courting Culture -
Chapter Fifteen The Peculiar Stake U.S. Protestants Have in the Question of State Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages -
Chapter Sixteen Sacred Property -
Chapter Seventeen When Is Religion, Religion, and a Knife, a Knife—and Who Decides? - Index
Secular Speech and Popular Passions
Secular Speech and Popular Passions
The Antinomies of Indian Secularism
- Chapter:
- (p.261) Chapter Thirteen Secular Speech and Popular Passions
- Source:
- After Secular Law
- Author(s):
Thomas Blom Hansen
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter discusses the deployment of secularism in India in order to contain sectarian violence following the 1947 Partition. In the shifting boundary between the “cultural” and the “political,” this chapter analyzes how the valorization of the two domains has evolved. It describes the continued importance of emotions and passions to modern politics, “emotional intensities drawing on another time or on another world.”
Keywords: Indian secularism, sectarian violence, 1947 Partition, modern politics
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- Title Pages
- The Cultural Lives of Law
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- After Secular Law
- Introduction
-
Chapter One Moses' Veil -
Chapter Two Secular Law and the Realm of False Religion -
Chapter Three Assenting to the Law -
Chapter Four National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688 -
Chapter Five “intolerance of Intolerance” in the Unitarian Controversy -
Chapter Six The University and the Advent of the Academic Secular -
Chapter Seven Stasiology -
Chapter Eight Against Sovereign Impunity -
Chapter Nine Sovereign Power and Secular Indeterminacy -
Chapter Ten The Ruse of Law -
Chapter Eleven The Religio-Secular Continuum -
Chapter Twelve “The Spirits Were Always Watching” -
Chapter Thirteen Secular Speech and Popular Passions -
Chapter Fourteen Courting Culture -
Chapter Fifteen The Peculiar Stake U.S. Protestants Have in the Question of State Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages -
Chapter Sixteen Sacred Property -
Chapter Seventeen When Is Religion, Religion, and a Knife, a Knife—and Who Decides? - Index