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Licence to Offend?

Parekh and Touraine have stressed the importance of intercultural dialogue in the construction of multicultural societies. When, in 2004, the Repertory Theatre in Birmingham, UK, produced Behzti (‘Dishonour’ in Punjabi), by a British-born Sikh playwright, local Sikhs entered into a dialogue with the theatre management and tried unsuccessfully to change aspects of the play they believed offensive to their faith. A demonstration outside the theatre turned violent and the production was halted, with an international outcry against this affront to artistic licence. Although frequently represented as a Manichaean conflict between proponents of free speech and those who sought to protect religious sensibilities, the affair may not have been about, or not mainly about, the clash between religious and secular values at all. It was much more complex, with a diversity of voices and arguments that slithered between principles of liberal and religious faith, culture, gender, and ‘race’.

Licence to Offend?

Urheber*in: Grillo, Ralph D.

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Umfang
Seite(n): 5-29
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Ethnicities, 7(1)

Thema
Religion

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Grillo, Ralph D.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2007

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-230466
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