Blasphemy in the Christian World: A HistoryOUP Oxford, 2010 M09 16 - 288 páginas 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. |
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... influence of reformed liturgies (and Calvinism in particular) placed far greater emphasis upon the word and the message of the Gospels. Protestantism was also poorly disposed to depictions of the mystery of God's nature. Such depictions ...
... influence of reformed liturgies (and Calvinism in particular) placed far greater emphasis upon the word and the message of the Gospels. Protestantism was also poorly disposed to depictions of the mystery of God's nature. Such depictions ...
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... influence of Norbert Elias and his ideas offer some further partial explanations. Elias saw human society as an agent of its own transformation, so that changes in behaviour were a deliberate choice rather than the result of pressure or ...
... influence of Norbert Elias and his ideas offer some further partial explanations. Elias saw human society as an agent of its own transformation, so that changes in behaviour were a deliberate choice rather than the result of pressure or ...
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... of Griselda Pollock, and is most readily identified with her. But it was also outlined in John Berger's influential introductory text Ways of Seeing (London, 1972). From this survey of trends and events the book moves Introduction 9.
... of Griselda Pollock, and is most readily identified with her. But it was also outlined in John Berger's influential introductory text Ways of Seeing (London, 1972). From this survey of trends and events the book moves Introduction 9.
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... influence from Afghanistan. Whilst the situations of these two revolutions were quite often light years away from the experience of communities within western nations, public opinion was sometimes shaped by these events. Similarly these ...
... influence from Afghanistan. Whilst the situations of these two revolutions were quite often light years away from the experience of communities within western nations, public opinion was sometimes shaped by these events. Similarly these ...
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... influence by the election of a German conservative, Cardinal Reitzinger, to the papacy. From the start, Reitzinger argued, his role and mission was to combat the secular nature of modern Europe. At moments it became possible to believe ...
... influence by the election of a German conservative, Cardinal Reitzinger, to the papacy. From the start, Reitzinger argued, his role and mission was to combat the secular nature of modern Europe. At moments it became possible to believe ...
Contenido
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12 | |
Part I 15001800 | 42 |
Part II 18002000 | 72 |
4 Who Were the Blasphemers? | 106 |
5 Controlling the Profane | 147 |
Victims and Communities | 184 |
Blasphemy and Film | 208 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Select Bibliography | 249 |
Index | 261 |
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