Salman Rushdie -- Religion and Philosophy

• The Political Context of Shame
• The Grotesque and Post-Colonialism in Shame
• Rushdie on Names, History, and Pakistan
• Faith vs. Simulacra: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
• Hindu Fundamentalism and Raman Fielding/Bal Thackeray : Historical Rama-i-fication
• Super-Powerful Shaktis : Durga and Parvati
• Religious Uncertainty in Midnight's Children

Resources suggested by the editors of MSANEWS

• Sardar & Davies, Distorted Imagination: Lessons from the Rushdie Affair (so far three full chapters are online)
• Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Media Failure in the Muslim World
• "The Significance of the Rushdie Affair" (A chapter from John Esposito's The Islamic Threat)