Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman RushdieUNC Press Books, 1995 - 688 oldal What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order, and morality. Society has always condemned as blasphemy what it regards as an abuse of liberty |
Tartalomjegyzék
Origins of the Offense | 3 |
The Jewish Trial of Jesus | 15 |
Christianity Transforms Blasphemy | 31 |
Compelling Heretics | 46 |
Protestantism Rediscovers Blasphemy | 58 |
The Fires of Smithfield | 75 |
Socinian AntiTrinitarians | 101 |
The Ranters Antinomianism Run Amok | 136 |
Carliles Shopmen and Free Expression | 368 |
Early American State Cases | 400 |
England Reconsiders the Law of Blasphemy | 424 |
English Prosecutions of the 1840s | 442 |
Bible Burning and a Debate Revived | 463 |
Bradlaugh Foote and Coleridges Decency Test | 479 |
The Age of John W Gott | 495 |
The American Middle Period 18801940 | 506 |
The Early English Quakers | 168 |
Christianity Becomes the Law of the Land | 205 |
Early Colonial America Gorton and the Quakers | 238 |
America from 1660 to 1800 | 260 |
Englands Augustan Age of Toleration | 272 |
Blasphemy and Obscenity | 296 |
The Age of Reason? | 320 |
Eaton to Carlile Deism for the People | 339 |
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Anabaptists Anglican anti-Trinitarians antinomian argument Arian atheist authority Baptists believed Bible Biddle bishop blas blasphemous libel blasphemy laws blasphemy prosecutions burned Carlile Carlile's Catholic century charge Chief Justice Christ Christianity church Church of England claimed common law condemned constituted convicted court crime criminal cursing death declared defendant deism deists denial denied dissenters divine doctrine England English expression faith freedom Freethinker Freethought Gospels guilty heresy heretics History Holy Holyoake Ibid imprisonment indictment insult James Nayler Jesus Jewish Jews John judge jury Kneeland law of blasphemy libel liberty Lodowick Muggleton London Lord matter ment Muggleton Nayler obscenity offense opinions Parliament persecution person phemy political preached Presbyterian prison profanity protection published punishment Quakers radical Ranters reason religion religious reprinted reviling Sanhedrin Scriptures sects seditious sentence Servetus society Socinianism speech Spirit statute Testament Thomas toleration tract trial Trinity truth Unitarian William Woolston words worship wrote York
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