- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 1st ed edition (12 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199255164
- ISBN-13: 978-0199255160
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,230,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Nash's book...represents the definitive reference volume for the history of blasphemy in the West. (Elizabeth Horodowich The English Historical Review )
[An] impressive book... a rewarding work of history. (Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald )
The book is lucid and with both depth and width. (Jim Herrick, The Freethinker )
discursive and thought-provoking book (Jonathan Sumption, Literary Review )
[An] incisive and erudite study... (The Universe )
an important and scholarly analysis of an issue that is not going to go away (Dr Bradley, Church Times )
David Nash is the world's foremost commentator on the history of blasphemy. This astute, readable survey of the illuminating ironies of the subject deserves to become a classic. He ably and colourfully demonstrates the cynical and sincere use made of the notion of blasphemy by the very bad and the well-meaning. He points up the crucial political lessons to be learned, but never rams them down the reader's throat. This book will fascinate all interested in the uneasy relationship between state authority and individual freedom. (Charles Foster, Contemporary Review )
[An] impressive book... a rewarding work of history. (Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald )
The book is lucid and with both depth and width. (Jim Herrick, The Freethinker )
discursive and thought-provoking book (Jonathan Sumption, Literary Review )
[An] incisive and erudite study... (The Universe )
an important and scholarly analysis of an issue that is not going to go away (Dr Bradley, Church Times )
David Nash is the world's foremost commentator on the history of blasphemy. This astute, readable survey of the illuminating ironies of the subject deserves to become a classic. He ably and colourfully demonstrates the cynical and sincere use made of the notion of blasphemy by the very bad and the well-meaning. He points up the crucial political lessons to be learned, but never rams them down the reader's throat. This book will fascinate all interested in the uneasy relationship between state authority and individual freedom. (Charles Foster, Contemporary Review )
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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.
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