Blasphemy in the Christian World

A History

AvDavid Nash

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity. Investigating its appearance in speech, literature, popular publishing and the cinema, he disinters the likely motives and agendas of blasphemers themselves, as well as offering a glimpse of blasphemy's victims. In particular, he seeks to understand why this seemingly medieval offence has reappeared to become a distinctly modern presence in the West.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-07-12
Mått:160 x 240 x 15 mm
Vikt:639 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199255160

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion
Medeltiden inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

David Nash is Reader in History at Oxford Brookes University. He has previously published on the secular and republican movements in England, specialising in the history of blasphemy, and appearing extensively in the media both Britain and America to speak on this subject. He has held visiting professorships in Utrecht and Buffalo, and is a permanent Visiting Research Fellow of the Center for Inquiry (Amherst, New York). In 2003 he was invited to give both verbal and written evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on religious offences.

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Blasphemy in the Christian World offers additional persuasive evidence for religion's continued relevance by showing how the rediscovery of seemingly archaic blasphemy laws in Europe and the Americas challenges cherished ... legal traditions of free speech and expression

Innehållsförteckning

1. The past invades the present - Blasphemy in the contemporary World ; 2. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures - Part One 1500-1800 ; 3. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures - Part Two 1800-2000 ; 4. Who Were the Blasphemers? ; 5. Controlling the Profane ; 6. Responses to Blasphemy: Victims and Communities ; 7. Last Temptations and Visions of Ecstasy: Blasphemy and Film ; 8. Conclusion