The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law / edited by Paul Cliteur & Tom Herrenberg.
This collection centers around two trends that currently influence freedom of expression. The first trend confirms the fact that many Western countries have become, over a long period of time, less strict about sacrilegious expression. In the process, many repealed their blasphemy laws or became les...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2016 ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Notes: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Foreword. Blasphemy : a victimless crime or a crime in search of a victim? / Flemming Rose
- 1. General introduction / Paul Cliteur & Tom Herrenberg
- 2. Blasphemy and the law : the fall and rise of a legal non sequitur / David Nash
- 3. The English law of blasphemy : the "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" / Ivan Hare
- 4. On the life and times of the Dutch blasphemy law (1932-2014) / Paul Cliteur & Tom Herrenberg
- 5. Death of a princess / Paul Cliteur, Laetitia Houben & Michelle Slimmen
- 6. Rushdie's critics / Paul Cliteur & Tom herrenberg
- 7. John stuart mill's "if all mankind minus one" tested in a modern blasphemy case / Paul Cliteur, Tom Herrenberg & Bastiaan Rijpkema
- 8. Religious freedom and blasphemy law in a global context : the concept of religious defamation / Mirjam van Schaik
- 9. Blasphemy, multiculturalism and free speech in modern Britain / Rumy Hasan.