Religious Identity vs Pakistani Identity: Naming and Identity of Christian Minorities in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Muhammad Hanif

— This research investigates shifts in the practice of naming and (de)construction of an identity based on names by the Pakistani minorities to attain equal citizenship as their Muslim brethren. Mohammad Hanif's Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2012) is researched under the theoretical frameworks of Lacanian Symbolic Order merged with Louis Althusser's Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (2014), respectively. This paper explores the basis of the contemporary Islamic Ideology in Pakistan. How and through what ways the Christian minorities in Pakistan suffered due to the dominant ideology and the role of names in the assigning of subject positions in the symbolic order (language). The practice of naming that takes place and the religious identities that accompany these names due to their linguistic affiliations and further social marginalization is discussed and investigated