Copyright (c) 2013 Butler University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu Recent documents in Digital Commons @ Butler University en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 01:32:09 PDT 3600 http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/270 http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/270 Thu, 16 May 2013 08:04:24 PDT While Hindu-Muslim violence in India has received a great deal of scholarly attention, Hindu-Christian violence has not. This article seeks to contribute to the analysis of Hindu-Christian violence, and to elucidate the curious alliance, in that violence, of largely upper-caste, anti-minority Hindu nationalists with lower-status groups, by analyzing both with reference to the varied processes of globalization. The article begins with a short review of the history of anti-Christian rhetoric in India, and then discusses and critiques a number of inadequately unicausal explanations of communal violence before arguing, with reference to the work of Mark Taylor, that only theories linking local and even individual social behaviors to larger, global processes like globalization can adequately honor the truly “webby” nature of the social world.

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