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245 00 a| Profaneh| [electronic resource] :b| sacrilegious expression in a multicultural age /c| edited by Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke, and David Nash ; foreword by Martin E. Marty.;

260 a| Los Angeles, California :b| University of California Press,c| 2014.;

300 a| xiv, 350 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| " Humans have been uttering profane words, and incurring the consequences, for millennia. But recent events-from the violence that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, in 2006, to the furor over The Innocence of Muslims, in 2012-indicate that blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts are produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again in our multicultural world. In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern societies. Contributors examine how the sacred is formed and maintained, how sacrilegious expression is conceived and regulated, and how the resulting conflicts resist easy adjudication. Their studies range across art, history, politics, law, literature, and theology. Because of the global nature of the problem, the volume's approach is comparative, examining blasphemy across cultural and geopolitical boundaries"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Profane sacrilegious expression in a multicultural age / edited by Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke, and David Nash ; foreword by Martin E. Marty.

Other author	Grenda, Christopher S.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, 2014.
Description	xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Blasphemy. Swearing.

Abstract	" Humans have been uttering profane words, and incurring the consequences, for millennia. But recent events-from the violence that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, in 2006, to the furor over The Innocence of Muslims, in 2012-indicate that blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts are produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again in our multicultural world. In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern societies. Contributors examine how the sacred is formed and maintained, how sacrilegious expression is conceived and regulated, and how the resulting conflicts resist easy adjudication. Their studies range across art, history, politics, law, literature, and theology. Because of the global nature of the problem, the volume's approach is comparative, examining blasphemy across cultural and geopolitical boundaries"-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract	"Humans have been uttering profane words, and incurring the consequences, for millennia. But recent events--from the violence that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, in 2006, to the furor over The Innocence of Muslims, in 2012--indicate that blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts are produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again in our multicultural world. In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern societies. Contributors examine how the sacred is formed and maintained, how sacrilegious expression is conceived and regulated, and how the resulting conflicts resist easy adjudication. Their studies range across art, history, politics, law, literature, and theology. Because of the global nature of the problem, the volume's approach is comparative, examining blasphemy across cultural and geopolitical boundaries"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2014000733
ISBN	9780520277229 (hardback)

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