{"product_id":"slandering-the-sacred-by-j-barton-scott-9780226824888","title":"Slandering the Sacred","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offence? To answer this question, \u003cem\u003eSlandering the Sacred\u003c\/em\u003e invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalised world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code), J.�goes on a globe-trotting narrative about secularism, empire, insult, and outrage. Decentring white martyrs to free thought, his story calls for new histories of blasphemy that return these thinkers to their imperial context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt dismantles the cultural boundaries of the West, and transgresses the borders between the secular and the sacred as well as the public and the private.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461372690668,"sku":"9780226824888","price":188.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/afb004661e5f4729a5791ac3e6cedd80.jpg?v=1775016283","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/slandering-the-sacred-by-j-barton-scott-9780226824888","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}