Blasphemy in the Christian world a history - Nash, David, (David S.) (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index
The past invades the present : blasphemy in the contemporary world -- Blasphemy in words and pictures : Part I, 1500-1800 -- Blasphemy in words and pictures : Part II, 1800-2000 -- Who were the blasphemers? -- Controlling the profane -- Responses to blasphemy : victims in communities -- Last temptations and visions of ecstasy : blasphemy and film
David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity. - ;David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred