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. INDICE: 1: The past invades the present - Blasphemy in the contemporaryWorld; 2: Blasphemy in Words and Pictures - Part One 1500-1800; 3: Blasphemy in Words and Pictures - Part Two 1800-2000; 4: Who Were the Blasphemers?; 5: Controlling the Profane; 6: Responses to Blasphemy: Victims and Communities; 7:Last Temptations and Visions of Ecstasy: Blasphemy and Film; 8: Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-957075-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 16/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés