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Biblical blaspheming : trials of the sacred for a secular age /
"This book explores the strange persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies by examining how accepted and prohibited ways of talking and thinking about the Bible and religion have changed over time. In a series of wide-ranging studies engaging disciplines such as politics...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. The persistence of blasphemy. 1. The persistence of blasphemy: the Bible as a public edifice in the secular state
- Part II. Biblical exhibitions/Biblical exhibitionism. 2. The exquisite fruit-corpse and the surrealist works of God ; 3. Prophetic scatology: prophecy and the art of sensation
- Part III. Inappropriate involvement in the Biblical text. 4. A recently discovered letter from Isaac to Abraham (annotated) ; 5. Passion-binding-passion: sacrifice, masochism and the subject
- Part IV. Beyond 'the Bible as literature'. 6. 'Not with a bang but a whimper': shrunken apocalypses in Ecclesiastes 12.1-8 and twentieth-century modernism ; 7. The fear of loss inherent in writing: Jeremiah 36 as the tedious self-narration of a highly self-conscious scroll with Mark Brummitt ; 8. John Donne and the Baroque prophets
- Part V. Theo-politics, authority and the Bible. 9. On the genesis of the alliance between the Bible and rights ; 10. Binding-unbinding: pre-critical 'critique' in pre-modern Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to the 'sacrifice' of Abraham/Ibrahim's son.