Blasphemy in the Christian World : A History.
Title:
Blasphemy in the Christian World : A History.
Author:
Nash, David.
ISBN:
9780191531200
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The Past Invades the Present: Blasphemy in the Contemporary World -- 2. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures: Part I, 1500-1800 -- 3. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures: Part II, 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 -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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