04384 am 22006853u 450 99632023080331620230621135413.01-920942-47-5(CKB)2670000000409964(SSID)ssj0000672007(PQKBManifestationID)12294356(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000672007(PQKBWorkID)10633601(PQKB)11097426(MiAaPQ)EBC4866680(WaSeSS)Ind00074390(WaSeSS)IndRDA00056531(EXLCZ)99267000000040996420170623h20062006 uy 0engurmn#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNegotiating the sacred blasphemy and sacrilege in a multicultural society /Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White (editors)Canberra, [Australia] :ANU E Press,2006.©20061 online resource (248 pages) digital file(s)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographPrint version: 9781920942472 Includes bibliographical references.Negotiating the sacred in multicultural societies /Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White --Section I.Religion, Sacrilege and Blasphemy in Australia.Negotiating religious dialogue: a response to the recent increase of anti-Semitism in Australia /Suzanne Rutland --Are we capable of offending God? Taking blasphemy seriously /Helen Pringle --A flaw in the nation-building process: negotiating the sacred in our multicultural society /Veronica Brady --The paradox of Islam and the challenges of modernity /Kuranda Seyit --Section II.Sacrilege and the Sacred.Stretching the sacred /Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White --Sacralising the profane, profaning the sacred /Colin Tatz --Is that a human skull? All in the name of art! /Dianne McGowan --The bourgeois sacred: Unveiling the 'secular society' /Liam Dee --Section III.The State, Religion and Tolerance.From public crime to personal offence /Ian Hunter --Expressions of religiosity and blasphemy in modern societies /Riaz Hassan --Negotiating the sacred in law: Regulation of gifts motivated by religious faith /Pauline Ridge --Negotiating a religious identity in modern Japan: The Christian experience /Colin Noble --Section IV.The Future: Openness and Dogmatism.'We already know what is good and just ... ': Idolatry and the scalpel of suspicion /Winifred Wing Han Lamb --The sacred and sacrilege -- ethics not metaphysics /Eilidh St John --Resolving disputes over Aboriginal sacred sites: Some experiences in the 1990s /Hal Wootten.This cross-disciplinary exploration of the role of the sacred, blasphemy and sacrilege in a multicultural society brings together philosophers, theologians, lawyers, historians, curators, anthropologists and sociologists, as well as Christian, Jewish and Islamic and secular perspectives. In bringing together different disciplinary and cultural approaches, the book provides a way of broadening our conceptions of what might count as sacred, sacrilegious and blasphemous, in moral and political terms. In addition, it provides original research data on blasphemy, sacrilege and religious tolerance from a range of disciplines.Religion and sociologyOffenses against religionBlasphemyBlasphemyfast(OCoLC)fst00834146Multiculturalismfast(OCoLC)fst01028836Offenses against religionfast(OCoLC)fst01044019Religion and sociologyfast(OCoLC)fst01093858Sacrilegefast(OCoLC)fst01103265Religion and sociology.Offenses against religion.Blasphemy.Blasphemy.Multiculturalism.Offenses against religion.Religion and sociology.Sacrilege.306.6Coleman Elizabeth Burns1961-White Kevin1955-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQUkMaJRUBOOK996320230803316Negotiating the sacred2024154UNISA