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George, Cherian.
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Offenses against religion -- Law and legislation.
Offenses against religion -- Political aspects.
Blasphemy -- Law and legislation
Religious law and legislation.
Hate speech -- Law and legislation.
Freedom of speech.
Political persecution.
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George, Cherian.
Offenses against religion -- Law and legislation.
Offenses against religion -- Political aspects.
Blasphemy -- Law and legislation
Religious law and legislation.
Hate speech -- Law and legislation.
Freedom of speech.
Political persecution.
MARC Display
Hate
spin
: the
manufacture
of
religious
offense
and
its
threat
to
democracy
/ Cherian George.
by
George, Cherian.
The MIT Press, c2016.
Call #:
345.0288 G347h
Subjects
Offenses against religion -- Law and legislation.
Offenses against religion -- Political aspects.
Blasphemy -- Law and legislation
Religious
law and legislation.
Hate
speech -- Law and legislation.
Freedom of speech.
Political persecution.
Series
Information policy series.
ISBN:
9780262035309 (hc.)
Description:
xviii, 308 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-292) and index.
Contents:
Hate
spin
as politics by other means -- By what rules?: Human rights and
religious
authority -- God, Google, and the globalization of offendedness -- India: Narendra Modi and the harnessing of
hate
-- Indonesia:
Democracy
tested amid rising
religious
intolerance -- United States: Exceptional freedoms, fabricated fears -- Pushing back, through media and civil society -- Assertive pluralism for a world of irreducible diversity.
Summary:
"In the United States, elements of the
religious
right fuel fears of an existential Islamic
threat
, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream politics. In Indonesia, Muslim absolutists urge suppression of churches and minority sects, fostering a climate of rising intolerance. In India, Narendra Modi's radical supporters instigate communal riots and academic censorship in pursuit of their Hindu nationalist vision. Outbreaks of
religious
intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate the giving of
offense
and the taking of
offense
as instruments of identity politics, exploiting democratic space to promote agendas that undermine democratic values. George calls this strategy "
hate
spin
" - a double-sided technique that combines
hate
speech (incitement through vilification) with manufactured offense-taking (the performing of righteous indignation). It is deployed in societies as diverse as Buddhist Myanmar and Orthodox Christian Russia. George looks at the world's three largest democracies, where intolerant groups within India's Hindu right, America's Christian right, and Indonesia's Muslim right are all accomplished users of
hate
spin
. He also shows how the Internet and Google have opened up new opportunities for cross-border
hate
spin
. George argues that governments must protect vulnerable communities by prohibiting calls to action that lead directly to discrimination and violence. But laws that try to protect believers' feelings against all provocative expression invariably backfire. They arm
hate
spin
agents' offense-taking campaigns with legal ammunition. Anti-discrimination laws and a commitment to
religious
equality will protect communities more meaningfully than misguided attempts to insulate them from insult."--Provided by publisher.
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