Finding the Enemy Within : Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashraf, Sana.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Finding the Enemy Within

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2021

Canberra : ANU Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the past decade, Pakistan has witnessed incidents such as the public lynching of a student on a university campus, a Christian couple being torched alive, attacks on entire neighbourhoods by angry mobs and the assassination of a provincial governor by his own security guard over allegations of blasphemy.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Glossary

Prologue

Introduction

Part I

1. Historical roots of anti-blasphemy violence in Pakistan: Formation of self, community and the state

2. Religious discourse concerning blasphemy: Politics of uncertainty and legitimacy

Part II

3. Blasphemy accusations: Power, purity and the enemy within

4. Violence in the making: The politics of escalation from accusation to punishment

Part III

5. Legitimate punishment of blasphemy: Contestation between the legal system and popular justice

6. At the nexus of state and society: Continuities and discontinuities between the legal system and popular justice

Conclusion

Appendix: Text of offences relating to religion (Pakistan Penal Code, 1860)

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781760464554

1760464554

OCLC:

1261465868