The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law /

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This collection centers around two trends that currently influence freedom of expression. The first trend confirms the fact that many Western countries have become, over a long period of time, less strict about sacrilegious expression. In the process, many repealed their blasphemy laws or became les...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Herrenberg, Tom (Autor, Editor ), Cliteur, Paul (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Offenses against religion > Western countries > History.
Blasphemy > Western countries > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Foreword. Blasphemy : a victimless crime or a crime in search of a victim? / Flemming Rose
  • 1. General introduction / Paul Cliteur & Tom Herrenberg
  • 2. Blasphemy and the law : the fall and rise of a legal non sequitur / David Nash
  • 3. The English law of blasphemy : the "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" / Ivan Hare
  • 4. On the life and times of the Dutch blasphemy law (1932-2014) / Paul Cliteur & Tom Herrenberg
  • 5. Death of a princess / Paul Cliteur, Laetitia Houben & Michelle Slimmen
  • 6. Rushdie's critics / Paul Cliteur & Tom herrenberg
  • 7. John stuart mill's "if all mankind minus one" tested in a modern blasphemy case / Paul Cliteur, Tom Herrenberg & Bastiaan Rijpkema
  • 8. Religious freedom and blasphemy law in a global context : the concept of religious defamation / Mirjam van Schaik
  • 9. Blasphemy, multiculturalism and free speech in modern Britain / Rumy Hasan.

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