Blasphemy in the Christian World

A History

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Church, Church History, History
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Author: David Nash ISBN: 9780191614354
Publisher: OUP Oxford Publication: September 16, 2010
Imprint: OUP Oxford Language: English
Author: David Nash
ISBN: 9780191614354
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication: September 16, 2010
Imprint: OUP Oxford
Language: English

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. 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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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. 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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