Title: Notes from the fortune-telling parrot : Islam and the struggle for religious pluralism in Pakistan /
Authors: Pinault, David.
Publisher: Equinox Pub.,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Religious minorities Pakistan.; Religious pluralism Pakistan.; Islam and other religions.; Islam Relations; Pakistan Religion.
Contents: Introduction: Pluralism and religious identity in Pakistan -- My fortune-telling parrot triggers trouble in Lahore : street rituals and the legacy of religious pluralism -- Being Hindu in Pakistan : legacy and survival -- Pakistani Christians and the prospects for inter-religious resistance to the blasphemy laws -- Ritual and communal identity : Shia-Sunni relations in Pakistan -- Spurting blood and attempts to regulate ritual : Pakistani Shias and Iran's bid for leadership of global Islam -- Raw meat skyward : Pariah-Kite rituals in Lahore -- Jinns and sorcery in Lahore : textual sources and personal experiences -- A comparison of Muslim and Hindu perspectives on the realm of the Jinns -- Lahori pulp fiction : the world of Khofnak dijast ("fright digest") -- The politics of jogging : women's status in Pakistan -- The Greco-Buddhist past : the Peshawar Museum and Pakistan's pre-Islamic heritage -- The hazards of being a free-thinker : Prince Dara Shikoh and the prospects for pluralism in 21st-century Pakistan.