Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman RushdieUNC Press Books, 1995 - 688 sider What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order, and morality. Society has always condemned as blasphemy what it regards as an abuse of liberty |
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Origins of the Offense | 3 |
The Jewish Trial of Jesus | 15 |
Christianity Transforms Blasphemy | 31 |
Compelling Heretics | 46 |
Protestantism Rediscovers Blasphemy | 58 |
The Fires of Smithfield | 75 |
Socinian AntiTrinitarians | 101 |
The Ranters Antinomianism Run Amok | 136 |
Carliles Shopmen and Free Expression | 368 |
Early American State Cases | 400 |
England Reconsiders the Law of Blasphemy | 424 |
English Prosecutions of the 1840s | 442 |
Bible Burning and a Debate Revived | 463 |
Bradlaugh Foote and Coleridges Decency Test | 479 |
The Age of John W Gott | 495 |
The American Middle Period 18801940 | 506 |
The Early English Quakers | 168 |
Christianity Becomes the Law of the Land | 205 |
Early Colonial America Gorton and the Quakers | 238 |
America from 1660 to 1800 | 260 |
Englands Augustan Age of Toleration | 272 |
Blasphemy and Obscenity | 296 |
The Age of Reason? | 320 |
Eaton to Carlile Deism for the People | 339 |
Modern America | 522 |
The Gay News Case | 534 |
The Rushdie Affair Should All Religions Be Protected or None? | 551 |
Conclusions | 568 |
Notes | 581 |
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