Blasphemy in modern Britain : 1789 to the present

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    • Nash, David

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Blasphemy in modern Britain : 1789 to the present

David Nash

Ashgate, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index

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内容説明

This volume deals with the cultural and legal debates which have counterposed the right to free speech and the need to protect Christian sensibilities in Britain from the time of the French Revolution to the present day. Central to the book is a close study of the content and public reception of the anti-Christian literature of the 19th century associated with the names G.W. Foote and J.W. Gott, the "Freethinker" and the "Truthseeker". David Nash here also examines a variety of critical-theoretical approaches to blasphemy and blasphemous writing, including postmodernism and the work of Foucault and Said. The book concludes with a detailed examination of 20th-century blasphemy cases, up to and including the "Gay News" case, "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Visions of Ecstasy".

目次

  • Part 1 The law of blasphemy in Britain: origins and development
  • blasphemy and theory - post-modern turns, Foucauldian analysis, Edward Said and orientalism, secular-isation theory
  • Thomas Paine, William Hone and the Carlile agitations - the creation of a modern blasphemous rhetoric. Part 2 G.W. Foote and the Freethinker prosecution: blasphemy as cultural terrorism
  • Boulter, Stewart, Pack and Gott -blasphemy, conflict and public order
  • attempts at repeal and extension - 1913-38
  • "Perish Judah" and save the empire -christianity "from below", the godless congress and the attempted extension of the blasphemy laws in 1938
  • silencing the love that dares to speak its name - blasphemy and the Gay News case.

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