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100	1		_aBilal, Muhammad. _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _986188
245	1	0	_aBeyond the Law: Living Blasphemy in Pakistan _h[electronic resource] : _bEthnography of Mundane Violence, Faith, and Lifeworlds / _cby Muhammad Bilal.
250			_a1st ed. 2024.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer Nature Switzerland : _bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan, _c2024.
300			_aXV, 205 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. _bonline resource.
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490	1		_aContemporary Anthropology of Religion, _x2946-3483
505	0		_aChapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Finding Religion in Everyday Life – How Lifeworlds Work in Pakistan -- Chapter 3 - What is Blasphemy? Perspectives of Ordinary Pakistani Muslims -- Chapter 4 - Mob Vigilantism? Outlooks on Religious Violence, Torture, and Killings -- Chapter 5 - Virtual Negotiation of Sacredness and Rise of Digital Blasphemy -- Chapter 6. Epilogue: Is There a Solution to Blasphemy Problem: Answers Beyond the Law.
520			_a"Muhammad Bilal’s excellent book is both pressingly relevant and original. The manuscript brilliantly reveals how religious violence in the case of blasphemy accusations and killings is just one aspect of more generalized socio-cultural and political violence in Pakistan. It analyses, too, the cultural nature of the legal system, showing how the legislating of law alone makes little difference to people’s social understandings of religious ethics and politics. In short, this book convincingly argues first how blasphemy exists (only) in the eye of the beholder, and then how the very ‘eyes’ of those beholders are socialized by a range of political forces that both generate and reflect complex cultural frameworks." —Christopher Houston, Professor of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, and contentious blasphemy laws. Challenging conventional perspectives, this book delves beyond legal and religious confines, offering an ethnography of the mundane as a secular reading and a grand existential scheme to highlight how blasphemy laws and religious prisms often fail to capture the essence of the blasphemy dilemma in Pakistan. The author offers an insightful re-evaluation of the blasphemy issue, addressing its multifaceted definition, the motivations driving intentional blasphemous acts and frivolous accusations, the authority to punish alleged offenders, the paradox of religious violence, and the emergence of mediated expressions and virtual negotiation of blasphemy. Through meticulous grassroots analysis of ordinary Pakistanis’ perspectives, the book offers pragmatic policy solutions for blasphemy issues, presenting unorthodox insights into Pakistan, its diverse populace, and the ever-evolving sensibilities of Islam and societal dynamics in both local and global contexts. Muhammad Bilal is Professor of Anthropology and Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology at Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan.
650		0	_aAnthropology of religion.
650		0	_aEthnology. _958687
650		0	_aMiddle East _xPolitics and government. _969672
650		0	_aIslam. _917875
650	1	4	_aAnthropology of Religion.
650	2	4	_aSociocultural Anthropology. _971227
650	2	4	_aMiddle Eastern Politics. _969673
650	2	4	_aIslam. _917875
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783031710285
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783031710308
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783031710315
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