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Profane - Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age (Hardcover, First Edition,)
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Profane - Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age (Hardcover, First Edition,)
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Humans have been uttering profane words, and incurring the
consequences, for millennia. But recent events--from the violence
that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet
Mohammed, in 2006, to the furor over The Innocence of Muslims, in
2012--indicate that blasphemy has reemerged in explosive
transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit
offense as rapidly as profane images and texts are produced,
blasphemy is bracingly relevant again in our multicultural world.
In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars
examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern
societies. Contributors examine how the sacred is formed and
maintained, how sacrilegious expression is conceived and regulated,
and how the resulting conflicts resist easy adjudication. Their
studies range across art, history, politics, law, literature, and
theology. Because of the global nature of the problem, the volume's
approach is comparative, examining blasphemy across cultural and
geopolitical boundaries.
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