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Author George, Cherian, author.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Information policy series
Information policy series.
Note Previously issued in print: 2016.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Audience Specialized.
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.
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Subject Religious discrimination.
Religious discrimination.
Freedom of religion.
Freedom of religion.
Religious tolerance.
Religious tolerance.
Offenses against religion -- Political aspects.
Offenses against religion.
Hate speech -- Law and legislation.
Hate speech -- Law and legislation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Hate speech.
Other Form: Print version : 9780262035309
ISBN 9780262336086 (ebook)
0262336081
9780262336062
0262336065
9780262336079
0262336073
9780262035309
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