Ebook: Hate spin: the manufacture of religious offense and its threat to democracy

Eruptions of religious intolerance are often described as spontaneous and visceral. This work, however, argues that most major episodes of religious offense are purposefully manufactured by political entrepreneurs.;Hate spin as politics by other means -- By what rules? : human rights and religious authority -- God, Google, and the globalization of offendedness -- India : Narendra Modi and the harnessing of hate -- Democracy tested : Indonesia's rising religious intolerance -- America's exceptional freedoms and the politics of fear -- Pushing back, through media and civil society -- Assertive pluralism for a world of irreducible diversity.