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India is a large and extremely diverse multination state that is constantly faced with the challenge of maintaining its unity. In the past two decades the Hindu nationalist movement has become a significant factor in Indian politics, and has systematically leveraged heritage to create communal tensions. This has resulted in short-term political gain, but is also tied to longer-term goals of establishing a homogenously Hindu state in South Asia. This article argues that instead of being in decline, this movement is actually progressively expanding, and that the case of Ayodhya is only one part of a much larger programme in which heritage academics play a significant role, and that their collective actions will be pivotal to the future stability of the country.

The current "minority crisis" in the Middle East can be considered an existential crisis as it tends to exclude hundreds of thousands of members of religious minorities from the public sphere and political life, while multidimensional violence force many of them to take refuge abroad. This chapter adopts a perspective of political sociology in order to shed light on the complex relation between the local political power which claims sovereignty and the exclusive use of "legitimate violence" - "the state" - on the one hand, and victimized and powerless religious communities, on the other hand.

The current "minority crisis" in the Middle East can be considered an existential crisis as it tends to exclude hundreds of thousands of members of religious minorities from the public sphere and political life, while multidimensional violence force many of them to take refuge abroad. This chapter adopts a perspective of political sociology in order to shed light on the complex relation between the local political power which claims sovereignty and the exclusive use of "legitimate violence" - "the state" - on the one hand, and victimized and powerless religious communities, on the other hand.

The current "minority crisis" in the Middle East can be considered an existential crisis as it tends to exclude hundreds of thousands of members of religious minorities from the public sphere and political life, while multidimensional violence force many of them to take refuge abroad. This chapter adopts a perspective of political sociology in order to shed light on the complex relation between the local political power which claims sovereignty and the exclusive use of "legitimate violence" - "the state" - on the one hand, and victimized and powerless religious communities, on the other hand.