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Profane

Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Hardback
Book Profane Christopher S. Grenda
Libristo code: 04618204
Publishers University of California Press, August 2014
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Humans have been uttering profane words, and incurring the consequences, for millennia. But recent events--from the violence that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, in 2006, to the furor over The Innocence of Muslims, in 2012--indicate that blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts are produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again in our multicultural world. In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern societies. Contributors examine how the sacred is formed and maintained, how sacrilegious expression is conceived and regulated, and how the resulting conflicts resist easy adjudication. Their studies range across art, history, politics, law, literature, and theology. Because of the global nature of the problem, the volume's approach is comparative, examining blasphemy across cultural and geopolitical boundaries.

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About the book

Full name Profane
Language English
Binding Book - Hardback
Date of issue 2014
Number of pages 368
EAN 9780520277229
ISBN 0520277228
Libristo code 04618204
Weight 636
Dimensions 229 x 163 x 28
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