Profane
Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age
Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events-from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video-indicate that controversy concerning blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts can be produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again. In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern societies. Contributors e…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-95822-7
- EAN: 9780520958227
- Produktnummer: 21596369
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'060 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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