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Profane : sacrilegious expression in a multicultural age /
"Humans have been uttering profane words, and incurring the consequences, for millennia. But recent events-from the violence that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, in 2006, to the furor over The Innocence of Muslims, in 2012-indicate that blasphemy has reemerged...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Los Angeles, California :
University of California Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction: On the Modern Confluence of Blasphemy, Free Expression, and Hate Speech; PART ONE. CREATING SPACE FOR SACRILEGIOUS EXPRESSION; 1. Thick-Skinned Tolerance: Satire, the Sacred, and the Rise of the Modern; 2. The Productive Obscene: Philip Roth and the Profanity Loop; 3. Defaced: The Art of Blaspheming Texts and Images in the West; PART TWO. SACRILEGE AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT; 4. Blasphemy and Free Thought in Jacksonian America: The Case of Abner Kneeland.
- 5. Secular Blasphemies: Symbolic Offense in Modern DemocracyPART THREE. CIVILITY, THE SACRED, AND HUMAN RIGHTS; 6. Muslim Political Theology: Defamation, Apostasy, and Anathema; 7. Protesting Sacrilege: Blasphemy and Violence in Muslim-Majority States; 8. The Indonesian Blasphemy Act: A Legal and Social Analysis; 9. Profound Offense and Religion in Secular Democracies: An Australian Perspective; 10. Blasphemy versus Incitement: An International Law Perspective; Afterword: Blasphemy beyond Modernism; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V.