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Blasphemy in the Christian world : a history /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The past invades the present : blasphemy in the contemporary world
- Blasphemy in words and pictures : Part I, 1500-1800
- Blasphemy in words and pictures : Part II, 1800-2000
- Who were the blasphemers?
- Controlling the profane
- Responses to blasphemy : victims in communities
- Last temptations and visions of ecstasy : blasphemy and film.