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Provocative images in contemporary Islam
Leiden: Leiden University Press (2023), 233 pp.
"Moving beyond a common visual concern within Religious Studies with art, aesthetic value, and perceptions of beauty or coherence, this volume shows how, when, and why images dare, shock, terrorize, confront, challenge, mock, shame, taunt, or offend, either intentionally or unintentionally, and as s
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Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), x, 303 pp.
"Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing
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Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’
London: UCL Press (2022), xix, 359 pp.
"Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and part
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Universal Periodic Review 41st Session – Indonesia (Fourth Cycle). Joint Stakeholder Contribution: Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion and Belief, and Digital Rights
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 16 pp.
"In this submission, the Association of Progressive Communications (APC), EngageMedia and Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) examine Indonesia's compliance with the recommendations received during the third Universal Periodic Review cycle in 2017. This submission will focus parti
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Freedom of Expression in Islam: Challenging Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws
London et al.: Tauris (2021), xi, 253 pp.
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2021), 266 pp.
"The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale. Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary
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The Voiceless Victims of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws: 28 Pakistani Christians Currently in Prison and a Guide to Effective Advocacy on Their Behalf
Silver Spring, MD: International Christian Concern, February Update (2021), 30 pp.
"In 2018, Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was acquitted of the blasphemy charges that had kept her on death row for nearly a decade. The lessons learned from her case, including the international advocacy critical to her acquittal, help to create a template for advocating on behalf of other religious
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Pakistan's Internet Landscape 2020
Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Bytes for All (2021), 89 pp.
"The internet brought new opportunities for Pakistan to develop into a progressive society and a more democratic country, and it opened doors for more forms of criminal activity (like fraud, child pornography, etc.), more intimidation and the spreading extremism, and more information gathering on ci
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Violating Rights: Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2020), 95 pp.
"In this report, the authors examine and compare state implementation and enforcement of criminal laws prohibiting blasphemy (“blasphemy laws”) worldwide over the five-year period between January 2014 and December 2018. The criminal cases this study analyzes represent states’ enforcement of la
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Blasphemy and the Cultivation of Religious Sentiments in Post-2011 Egypt
In: Blasphemies Compared: Transgressive Speech in a Globalised World
Lund: Lund University (2020), 21 pp.
Politicising Blasphemy in Indonesia: How Islamic Alliances Are Established
Melbourne Asia Review, issue 4 (2020), 8 pp.
"Conservative Muslim groups have been very successful in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, in efforts to construct blasphemy as a serious threat to the Islamic community. These groups attempt to formalise Islam in state institutions in a way that rejects liberalism and pluralism;
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Apostasy, Blasphemy, and Hate Speech Laws in Africa: Implications for Freedom of Religion or Belief
Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2019), 52 pp.
"This report shines light on the following trends:
- Blasphemy and apostasy laws are often overbroad and can be used to limit a variety of religious expression. These laws violate international human rights law and should be repealed.
- Hate speech laws are also generally overbroad and can be used t
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Blasphemy and Religious Defamation: What Are the Limits to Our Freedom?
TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World, volume 12, issue 2 (2019), pp. 31-58
"Incidents of blasphemy and religious defamation occur around the world, often provoking angry, and sometimes violent reactions from religious adherents. However, laws prohibiting blasphemy and religious defamation are heavily criticised as being against freedom of speech, despite their effect on ra
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Policy Update: Pakistan's Blasphemy Law
Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2019), 3 pp.
Blasphemy and Apostasy “Laws” in the Muslim World: A Critical Analysis
Valparaiso, Indiana (US): Valparaiso University School of Law (2018), 40 pp.
"This chapter reviews the laws of apostasy and blasphemy in the Muslim world, by looking particularly at Pakistani and Malaysian cases. It strongly argues that the death penalty in the laws of apostasy and blasphemy is untenable in the modern period. The chapter demonstrates that these laws conflict
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Faith on Trial: Blasphemy and ‘lawfare’ in Indonesia
Ethnos, volume 83, issue 2 (2018), pp. 371-391
"This article develops the argument that blasphemy trials occupy a pivotal role in ‘religion-making’ in post-1998 Indonesia. Examining a blasphemy trial on the island of Lombok in 2010, I argue that the process of democratisation has given civilian actors more opportunity to engage Indonesia’s
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Unpacking the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan
Asian Affairs, volume 49, issue 2 (2018), pp. 319-339
"Over the years, Pakistan's notorious blasphemy laws have been a central instrument for the persecution of religious minorities. While these laws are colonial in origin, they exist today within the context of a general Islamisation of laws, which combined with the state's inability to hold a monopol
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Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2017), xix, 740 pp.
"The tension between blasphemy laws and the freedom of expression in modern times is a key area of debate within legal academia and beyond. With contributions by leading scholars, this volume compares blasphemy laws within a number of Western liberal democracies and debates the legitimacy of these l
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Blasphemy, Defamation of Religions and Human Rights Law
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, volume 26, issue 4 (2017), pp. 517-545
"Blasphemy is a serious wrongdoing in all monotheistic world religions. Blasphemy prohibitions have been brought into being and enforced so as to protect the dominant religion specifically. Religions as such, however, are not protected by international human rights law. Human rights law protects and
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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study
Barbara Trionfi (ed.)
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.
"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat
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