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http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27699| Author(s): | Lazzaretti, V. |
| Editor: | Vera Lazzaretti Kathinka Frøystad |
| Date: | 2022 |
| Title: | "We know how to behave and that’s why we feel safe": Peace and insecurity in Banaras |
| Book title/volume: | Beyond courtrooms and street violence: Rethinking religious offence and its containment |
| Pages: | 87 - 102 |
| Reference: | Lazzaretti, V. (2022). "We know how to behave and that’s why we feel safe": Peace and insecurity in Banaras. EM Vera Lazzaretti, Kathinka Frøystad (Eds.). Beyond courtrooms and street violence: Rethinking religious offence and its containment (pp. 87-102). Routledge. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27699 |
| ISBN: | 9781032252650 |
| Abstract: | In the 1980s and 1990s, during the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, the Gyanvapi mosque in Banaras was identified by Hindu nationalists as the next place to be ‘liberated’ from Muslim presence. A security plan was then implemented by the government to prevent the occurrence of a ‘religious offence’ as specified in the Indian Penal Code, namely ‘destroying, damaging or defiling a place of worship’ (Section 295). Drawing on ethnographic research, this article explores religious offence within and beyond its legal definition and examines the contradictory impact that its containment through policing has on everyday life and interreligious relationships in the centre of Banaras. |
| Peerreviewed: | yes |
| Access type: | Open Access |
| Appears in Collections: | CRIA-CLI - Capítulos de livros internacionais |
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