Hate spin : the manufacture of religious offense and its threat to democracy / Cherian George.

By:

George, Cherian [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Information policy seriesPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780262336086
0262336081
9780262336062
0262336065
9780262336079
0262336073

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

200.8 23

LOC classification:

BL99.5

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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 -- Democracy tested : Indonesia's rising religious intolerance -- America's exceptional freedoms and the politics of fear -- Pushing back, through media and civil society -- Assertive pluralism for a world of irreducible diversity.

Summary: Eruptions of religious intolerance are often described as spontaneous and visceral. This work, however, argues that most major episodes of religious offense are purposefully manufactured by political entrepreneurs.

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Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eruptions of religious intolerance are often described as spontaneous and visceral. This work, however, argues that most major episodes of religious offense are purposefully manufactured by political entrepreneurs.