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  Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History (Hardback) By (author) David S. Nash

  

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  Short Description for Blasphemy in the Christian WorldDavid Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he 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.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 12 July 2007
  • Format: Hardback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Linguistics | Blasphemy, Heresy, Apostasy | History Of Religion | Christianity | Christian Theology
  • ISBN 13: 9780199255160 ISBN 10: 0199255164

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Full description for Blasphemy in the Christian World

• David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he 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.