2024
DOI: 10.1177/09646639241251613
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Acts of Violence? Anti-Conversion Laws in India

M. Sudhir Selvaraj

Abstract: Extant scholarship on anti-Christian violence in India is scant and predominantly focuses on physical violence. To address this gap, this article explores Freedom of Religion laws (also referred to as anti-conversion laws) as an example of structural violence faced by India's Christians. Thus far, scholars have studied these as a constitutional violation that denies a Christian's freedom of religion. Using Johan Galtung's violence framework, this article seeks to recast these laws as a form of structural viole… Show more

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