Blood on a Mosque:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Blood on a Mosque: "
Tuomas Äystö

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072991
Doc. No	:	LA116620
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748929-01003002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Tuomas Äystö
Title & Author	:	Blood on a Mosque: [Article] : Religion, the Sacred, and the Finnish Criminal Court Process\ Tuomas Äystö
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion in Europe
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	10/3
Page No	:	274–300
Abstract	:	This article analyzes a Finnish criminal court process concerning a spattering of blood on a mosque. Initially ruled as a religious insult, the charge was eventually dropped on the grounds that the Islamic community in question did not have the proper legal personality. The article utilizes a non-normative discursive perspective to analyze the construction of ‘sacredness’ and the category of ‘religion’ in the legal process. First, it is argued that several officials were influenced by the prevailing discourses on religion and blood, as well as the meaning of ‘sacred,’ to the point where they contradicted the prevalent legalistic discourse. Second, the legalistic discourse observed in the final ruling demonstrates how the prohibition of religious insult is part of the Finnish association-oriented model for managing a society perceived as religiously diverse.
Descriptor	:	criminal law
Descriptor	:	Finland
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Islam
Descriptor	:	religion Society
Descriptor	:	religious diversity
Descriptor	:	religious insult
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	sacred
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748929-01003002‬