Slandering the Sacred

J. Barton Scott is associate professor of historical studies and the study of religion at the University of Toronto. He is author of Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

1 Introduction: Secularizing Blasphemy
Part One: The Merry Prophet
2 A Crisis of the Public: The Rajpal Affair and Its Bodies
3 Secularism, High and Low: Making the Blasphemy Bill
Part Two: Blasphemy’s Empire
4 Codifying Blasphemy: Religious Feelings between Colony and Metropole
5 Macaulay Unmanned, or, Tom Governs His Feelings
6 Libeling Religion: Secularism and the Intimacy of Insult
Part Three: Polemics as Ethics
7 Printing Pain, Ruling Sentiment: A Brief History of Arya Insult
8 The Arya Penal Code: Law and the Practice of Documentary Religion
9 The Swami and the Prophet: Slandering Lives, Conducting Character
10 Conclusion: A Feeling for “Religion”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index