Licence to Offend?: The Behzti Affair  

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Grillo, Ralph D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethnicities vol. 07 no. 01 (Mar. 2007), page 5–29.
Topik: intercultural dialogue; multiculturalism; religion; secularism; Sikhs
Fulltext: 5.pdf (183.92KB)

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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 Britishborn 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’.

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