The Immanent Frame – Page 20 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right

Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond

December 7, 2022

Rather than speak of the “right,” we in this concluding essay urge all to call these projects what they actually are: the “far right.” The far right has managed to capture power,…

December 7, 2022

Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right

Normalizing nationalism through social media in transnational Jain communities

Steven M. Vose·

November 30, 2022

On August 4, 2022, in the run-up to India celebrating its seventy-fifth Independence Day, the Shrimad Rajchandra Mission (SRMD), a guru-led Jain organization based in the small town of Dharampur in south…

November 30, 2022

Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right

The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva

Dheepa Sundaram·

November 23, 2022

US Hindu nationalist groups capitalize on anti-racist discursive models, decolonial language, as well as the liberatory structures of Black and Indigenous futurisms to characterize Hindutva ideology as a modern, anticolonial resistance movement.

November 23, 2022

Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right

Sacred space and the (post)secular state

Anna Bigelow·

November 16, 2022

“There are some artifacts that are symbols of nations and states. One of these symbols is the Ayasofya,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdoğan on July 13, 2020. This followed the declaration…

November 16, 2022

Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right

Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”

Shaheen·

November 9, 2022

As India increasingly gets synonymized as Hindu, and academic-activist works interrogate Hindutva, we must investigate the pre- and post-9/11 impact of the “War on Terror” in invisibilizing Hindu terrorism and the consequences…

November 9, 2022

Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right

Hindu fragility and the politics of mimicry in North America

Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective·

November 2, 2022

By examining contemporary debates around caste in the United States, we illustrate how Hindu fragility—an expression of Hindu supremacist logics—is weaponized and performed by North American Hindus, mimicking white supremacy culture and…

November 2, 2022

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Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond

Normalizing nationalism through social media in transnational Jain communities

The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva

Sacred space and the (post)secular state

Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”

Hindu fragility and the politics of mimicry in North America