Blasphemy in the Christian World
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Product details
- ISBN 9780199570751
- Weight: 441g
- Dimensions: 156 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
