Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie

Type

Book

Authors

Leonard W. Levy

ISBN 10

0807845159

ISBN 13

9780807845158

Tags

Historical Study & Educational Resources, General, Administrative Law, Legal History, History

Description

Leonard Levy traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. He argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is 'numb' to outrage. - from Amzon

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