Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: On the Modern Confluence of Blasphemy, Free Expression, and Hate Speech -- Part One. Creating Space for Sacrilegious Expression -- 1. Thick-Skinned Tolerance: Satire, the Sacred, and the Rise of the Modern -- 2. The Productive Obscene: Philip Roth and the Profanity Loop -- 3. Defaced: The Art of Blaspheming Texts and Images in the West -- Part Two. Sacrilege and Democratic Development -- 4. Blasphemy and Free Thought in Jacksonian America: The Case of Abner Kneeland -- 5. Secular Blasphemies: Symbolic Offense in Modern Democracy -- Part Three. Civility, The Sacred, and Human Rights -- 6. Muslim Political Theology: Defamation, Apostasy, and Anathema -- 7. Protesting Sacrilege: Blasphemy and Violence in Muslim-Majority States -- 8. The Indonesian Blasphemy Act: A Legal and Social Analysis -- 9. Profound Offense and Religion in Secular Democracies: An Australian Perspective -- 10. Blasphemy versus Incitement: An International Law Perspective -- Afterword: Blasphemy beyond Modernism -- List of Contributors -- Index.