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Blasphemy in the Christian World - A History (Paperback)
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Blasphemy in the Christian World - A History (Paperback)
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Blasphemy--the denial or denigration of God--has a long history.
Jesus was tried for blasphemy. Early Christians felt that the Jews
in taking such action were themselves guilty of it. But it is not a
story confined to the remote past. The publication in 2005 of 12
cartoons in a Danish newspaper linking the prophet Mohammed to
terrorism sparked outrage in the global Islamic community. And that
was not an instance of blasphemy intruding itself upon a Western
society unused to such issues within Christianity. In many
societies blasphemy remained an offence in law and the prosecution
of artistic productions profaning the sacred was still a
possibility.
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.
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