Abstract
Religion plays an important role in both individual and
collective lives of people. However, the religious people can be
divided into two major categories, i.e. people who practice a
religion for making their lives as well as those of others peaceful;
and those who use religion to materialize their vested interests.
This article will briefly discuss the role of religious identities and
the way religious identity has been portrayed in the contemporary
Pakistani fiction. Omar Shahid Hamid’s novel titled as “The
Spinner’s Tale” (2015) has been selected as a representative text
of Pakistani fiction. It portrays different religious identities and the
way they affect the society at large when a religious individual or
group uses religious identity not to make peace with the inner-self
or the universe, but to bring chaos (either knowingly or otherwise)
by trying to gain benefits of trivial nature. With an aim of bringing
one of the reasons behind the failure of an already falling apart
world, this article is an effort to point out the way religious identity
has been [mis-]represented in the selected contemporary work of
fiction and to offer a practically possible solution to bring a halt to
the way a religious identity is misused or misrepresented.
Hafiz Javed ur Rehaman , Dr. Mustanir Ahmad. (2019) Portrayal of Religious Identities in the contemporary Pakistani Fiction, Hazara Islamicus, Volume 8, Issue 2.
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