The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law

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Tác giả: Paul Cliteur, Tom Herrenberg

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 9400602715

Ký hiệu phân loại: 179.50903 Blasphemy, profanity, obscenity in speech

Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (267 pages)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 243794

This collection centers around two trends that currently influence freedom of expression. The first trend confirms the fact that many Western countries have become, over a long period of time, less strict about sacrilegious expression. In the process, many repealed their blasphemy laws or became less harsh in their punishment of blasphemy, hence "the fall of blasphemy law." The second trend manifests an opposite movement, hence "the rise of blasphemy law". Over the last decades, namely, Western societies have witnessed multiple attempts to suppress speech that defames religion. To be sure, one particularly vicious way of re-energizing these interdicts against blasphemy has come from radical believers intent upon removing blasphemy from the public domain by violent means. With contributions by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume seeks to offer an examination of topical issues relating to freedom of expression, censorship, and blasphemy in contemporary multicultural democracies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
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