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Emotive Circulation: 19th Century Islamophobia in Anglophone Newspapers in India and the United States

Lecture by Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University, USA)

Through a globalizing newspaper network, the British empire served as a vector for ideas and emotions promoting Islamophobia, anti-Muslim sentiment, and religious tolerance in ways still evident today. Anglophone newspapers published in India, Britain, and the United States in the nineteenth century reflected both the imaginaries and the emotions that helped constitute, reinforce, and challenge normative regimes of social belonging and religious commitment. The continuous interface among Anglophone newspapers that coalesced into a global and globalizing network resulting directly from (and often were supportive of) the operations of the British empire.

Peter Gottschalk is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA). His research concentrates on the dynamics of cultural interpretation and conflict at the intersections of Muslim, Hindu, Christian, secular, and scientific traditions. He is interested particularly in how comparison and categories work in how we know the world. In regard to South Asia, he has explored these themes — with a focus on Bihar — in Religion, Science, and Empire (2012) and Beyond Hindu and Muslim (2000).

The event will be held via Zoom. Please register at registration@zmo.de.

This event is part of the lecture series:
Summer semester 2021
ZMO Colloquium

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