J. Barton Scott

A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law. Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offence? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalised world. Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code),...

A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law. Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalized world. Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code),...