1985
DOI: 10.2307/3033123
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From Al-Beruni to Jinnah: Idiom, Ritual and Ideology of the Hindu-Muslim Confrontation in South Asia

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“…In addition to profanation in this broad and diffuse Durkheimian sense, profanation in a narrower, more substantively religious sense may be a flashpoint for violence. Violence may be triggered by a "ritual of provocation" (Gaborieau 1985) that deliberately desecrates the central symbols of another religion, such as Florida pastor Terry Jones' burning of a Qur'an in March 2011, 24 or the repertory of techniques, often connected with public processions and celebrations, that regularly triggered violence between Catholics and Protestants in early modern Europe (Davis 1973;Kaplan 2007). But a religious profanation may be experienced without having been intended as such.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In addition to profanation in this broad and diffuse Durkheimian sense, profanation in a narrower, more substantively religious sense may be a flashpoint for violence. Violence may be triggered by a "ritual of provocation" (Gaborieau 1985) that deliberately desecrates the central symbols of another religion, such as Florida pastor Terry Jones' burning of a Qur'an in March 2011, 24 or the repertory of techniques, often connected with public processions and celebrations, that regularly triggered violence between Catholics and Protestants in early modern Europe (Davis 1973;Kaplan 2007). But a religious profanation may be experienced without having been intended as such.…”
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“…These riots are predominantly an urban phenomenon (Engineer, ; Tambiah, ; Hansen, ), sometimes occurring during election campaigns (Brass, ; Wilkinson, ) and unfolding in an almost ritualistic fashion (Freitag, ). The points of contention (Gaborieau, ) between the two communities are multiple and include disputes over religious sites, economic rivalries, ‘threatening' demographic growth of the Muslim minority and conflicts over political representation. From time to time, cyclical, low‐intensity riots have escalated into mass violence .…”
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“…Communal conflicts caused by ritualized provocations and subsequent feelings of moral outrage have a long history in the Indian Subcontinent dating prior to British colonization (Baily 1985;Gaborieau 1985). The 1857 revolt itself was triggered by Indian soldiers refusing to open cartridges that contained beef and pig substances, thus breaking their religious taboos.…”
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“…A case in point is Tambiah's proposition that there is a lack of shared values in such conflicts, a somewhat culturalist postulate, which takes for granted or overestimates the 'cultural gap' between religious communities. The syncretism argument, highlighting all that communities culturally share across communal boundaries, has rightly been criticized as 'naïve', and it has also been noted that it corresponds in India to the official secular ideology of the Congress Party (Gaborieau 1985).…”
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