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Blasphemy : verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie / by Leonard W. Levy.
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Publication details:
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 1993.
Record id:
12749
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Subject:
Blasphemy -- History.
Blasphemy -- Great Britain.
Freedom of speech -- History.
Freedom of speech -- Great Britain.
Contents:
1. Origins of offense
2. The Jewish trial of Jesus
3. Christianity transforms blasphemy
4. Compelling heretics
5. Protestantism rediscovers blasphemy
6. The fires is Smithfield
7. Socinian anti-trinitarians
8. The Ranters: antinomianism Run Amok
9. The early English quakers
10. Christianity becomes the law of the land
11. Early colonial America: Gorton and the quakers
12. America from 1660 to 1800
13. England's Augustan age of toleration
14. Blasphemy and Obscenity
15. The "age" of reason?
16. Eaton to Carlie: deism for the people
17. Carlile's shopmen and free expression
18. Early American state cases
19. England reconsiders the law of Blasphemy
20. England Prosecutions of the 1840's
21. Bible Burning and a debate revived
22. Bradlaugh, Foote, and Coleridge's decency test
23. The age of John W. Gott
24. The American middle period: 1880-1940
25. Modern America
26. The gay news case
27. The rushdie affair: should all religions be protected on none?
28. Conclusions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Phys. description:
xi, 688 p. ; 25 cm