When Heterodoxy Becomes Heresy: Using Bourdieu's Concept of Doxa to Describe State-Sanctioned Exclusion in Pakistan

This paper employs and adapts Bourdieu's concept of doxa to describe the declaration of heresy against the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. The Ahmadiyya, avowedly Muslim, were declared heretics by constitutional amendment in 1974, leading to their widespread persecution and bans on their use of Islamic...

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Main Author: Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Hādī, ʿAbd-al-Mahdī Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Qādir (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press [2015]
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 76, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-176
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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