Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Profane : Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age - Christopher S. Grenda

Profane

Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age

By: Christopher S. Grenda (Editor)

eBook | 15 August 2014 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eBook

RRP $110.15

$99.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $25.00 with

 or 

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

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 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.

on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionSociety & CultureSocial GroupsSocial & Cultural Aspects of Religious GroupsPolitics & Government

More in Politics & Government

Chasing Chi - James E. Gaylord

eBOOK

Chasing Chi

eBook

$38.99

The Menzies Era - John Howard

eBOOK

The Menzies Era

eBook

$12.99

Going Rogue : An American Life - Sarah Palin

eBOOK

Going Rogue

An American Life

eBook

RRP $28.99

$23.99

17%
OFF
The Icarus Syndrome : A History of American Hubris - Peter Beinart

eBOOK

The Icarus Syndrome

A History of American Hubris

eBook

RRP $28.99

$23.99

17%
OFF

This product is categorised by