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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809987103321

Autore

Nash David (David S.)

Titolo

Blasphemy in the Christian world [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / David Nash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-16412-7

9786611164126

0-19-153120-0

1-4356-0997-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

241.69509

Soggetti

Blasphemy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. The Past Invades the Present: Blasphemy in the Contemporary World; 2. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures: Part I, 1500-1800; 3. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures: Part II, 1800-2000; 4. Who Were the Blasphemers?; 5. Controlling the Profane; 6. Responses to Blasphemy: Victims and Communities; 7. Last Temptations and Visions of Ecstasy: Blasphemy and Film; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. - ;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