Dissentiments

Jacob Copeman is Oportunius Research Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Religion and Its Others in South Asia and the World. His research spans religion, secularism, material culture, and political anthropology in India. He is the author or co-author of two monographs, including Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India, and co-editor of nine volumes, such as The Guru in South Asia and An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange. His collaborative work includes one of the earliest studies on atheism and media in South Asia, Global Sceptical Publics. Amélie Blom is Associate Professor in Political Sociology at Sciences Po Lyon and Associate Member at the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies, Paris (CNRS/EHESS). Her work focuses on the entanglement of state and social violence in Pakistan, particularly around the politics of blasphemy and Islamic mobilisation. She is co-editor of Emotions, Mobilisations and South Asian Politics, The Enigma of Islamist Violence, and has published widely on affect, Islam, and political mobilisation in journals such as South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal. Ben Laws is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ERC-funded ROSA project at the University of Cambridge. His research addresses emotions, law, and non-religion in European asylum contexts. He is the author of Caged Emotions: Adaptation, Control and Solitude in Prison and Asylum and Non-religion: Emotions, Evidence-making and Credibility, and has published in the Journal of Refugee Studies. His work draws on ethnographic research in Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands. Johannes Quack is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich and a leading figure in the anthropology of non-religion and secularity. He is the author of the landmark monograph Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India, and co-author of The Diversity of Non-religion. He has co-edited volumes on ritual, religion and therapeutic practice, including The Problem of Ritual Efficacy and Asymmetrical Conversations, and co-edits the series Religion and Its Others: Studies in Religion, Non-religion, and Secularity. Mascha Schulz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, where she is part of the Department of Anthropology of Politics and Governance. Her research explores the intersections of secularism, non-religion, and political imaginaries in Bangladesh. Based on long-term ethnographic work in Sylhet, her award-winning PhD thesis is under contract with New York University Press. She is co-editor of Global Sceptical Publics and of a landmark special issue on non-religion in Religion and Society. She has also published widely on South Asian political parties, student movements, and affective governance.

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• Preface; 1. 'I crossed an invisible line'; Introduction; 2. 'The blogger issue is over' Bangladesh; 3. 'We only exposed a few things' Maharashtra; 4. 'From then on, to feel fear was normal for us'; Punjab (India); 5. 'If only I'd known I was putting my hand in the snake's hole'; Pakistan; 6. 'I call being an atheist a convert' Europe (Sweden and the Netherlands); 7. 'I thought about deleting it, but it was too late'; Conclusion.