Blasphemy in the Christian World : A History Paperback / softback
by David (Reader in History, Oxford Brookes University) Nash
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 23 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:16/09/2010
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- ISBN:9780199570751
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 23 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:16/09/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199570751