Blasphemy: verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie
by Leonard W. Levy
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1993
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- Table of Contents:
- The origins of the offense
- The Jewish trial of Jesus
- Christianity transforms blasphemy
- Compelling heretics
- Protestantism rediscovers blasphemy
- The fires of Smithfield
- Socinian anti-Trinitarians
- The Ranters : antinomianism run amok
- The early English Quakers
- Christianity becomes the law of the land
- Early colonial America : Gorton and the Quakers
- America from 1660 to 1800
- England's Augustan age of toleration
- Blasphemy and obscenity
- The "Age of reason"?
- Eaton to Carlile : deism for the people
- Carlile's shopmen and free expression
- Early American state cases
- England reconsiders the law of blasphemy
- English prosecutions of the 1840s
- Bible burning and a debate revived
- Bradlaugh, Foote, and Coleridge's decency test
- The age of John W. Gott
- The American middle period : 1880-1940
- Modern America
- The Gay news case
- The Rushdie affair : should all religions be protected or none?
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 688 pages ; 25 cm
- Call Numbers:
- KD8073 .L47 1993
- ISBNs:
- 0679402365
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 92036345
- OCLC Numbers:
- 26809985