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Demystifying the Sacred - Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today (Hardcover)
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Demystifying the Sacred - Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today (Hardcover)
Series: New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought
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Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French
Revolution to Today offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that
historians have largely ignored, yet that has considerable
relevance for today's world: the powerful connection that exists
between offences against the sacred and different forms of
violence. Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia
of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and
agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal
framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both
physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing so, the volume
reveals how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy,
apostasy and sacrilege, were a companion to or acted as a trigger
for physical action but also a form of how violence was
experienced. More generally, it shows the importance of religious
sensibilities in modern society and the violent potential contained
in criticism or ridicule of the sacred and secular alike.
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