Description
| Product ID: | 9780199570751 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Blasphemy in the Christian World |
| Subtitle: | A History |
| Authors: | Author: David Nash |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, General and world history, General and world history, History of religion, History: earliest times to present day, History of religion |
| Description: | Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash 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 religious identity. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash 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 religious identity. Investigating its appearance in speech, literature, popular publishing and the cinema, he disinters the likely motives and agendas of blasphemers themselves, as well as offering a glimpse of blasphemy''s victims. In particular, he seeks to understand why this seemingly medieval offence has reappeared to become a distinctly modern presence in the West. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-09-16 |