Demystifying the sacred : : blasphemy and violence from the French Revolution to today /

Demystifying the sacred : : blasphemy and violence from the French Revolution to today / / edited by Eveline G. Bouwers, David Nash.

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Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that historians have largely ignored, yet that has considerable relevance for today's world: the powerful connection that exists between offences against the sacred and...

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Superior document:New perspectives on the history of liberalism and freethought ; Volume 2
TeilnehmendeR:
Bouwers, Eveline G., 1981-
Nash, David
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:New perspectives on the history of liberalism and freethought ; Volume 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 303 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World / Eveline G. Bouwers
  • 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World / Eveline G. Bouwers
  • PART I: BLASPHEMY AS A COMPANION TO VIOLENCE
  • 2 Violence and the Sacred, or Blasphemy during the French Revolution / Alain Cabantous
  • 3 Blasphemy, Religious Adherence and Political Loyalty in the Papal States (1790s through 1810s) / Marco Emanuele Omes
  • 4 Blasphemy, War and Revolution: Spain, 1936 / Julio De La Cueva
  • PART II: BLASPHEMY AS A FORM OF EXPERIENCED VIOLENCE
  • 5 Conflicting Narratives of Blasphemy, Heresy and Religious Reform: The Jatho Affair in Wilhelmine Germany / Christoffer Leber
  • 6 The Imagined Violence of Blasphemy in England / David Nash
  • 7 Pokémon in the Church: The Case of Ruslan Sokolovskiy and the Limits of Religious Performance in Contemporary Russia / Marcin Skladanowski
  • PART III: VIOLENCE AS A REACTION TO BLASPHEMY
  • 8 Protecting Muslims' Feelings, Protecting Public Order: Tunisian Blasphemy Cases from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Laura Thompson
  • 9 The Sound of Blasphemy in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Vulgarity, Violence and the Crowd / Matthew Kerry
  • 10 The Politics of Religious Outrage: The Satanic Verses and the Ayatollah's Licence to Kill / Manfred Sing
  • 11 Conclusion / David Nash
  • Notes on Authors
  • Abstracts
  • Index.

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