Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807845158 (0807845159)
Publish date: February 1st 1995
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Pages no: 700
Edition language: English
This is a substantial and extremely interesting history of the way people have defined and punished imprecations. Now of course it's important to remember that blasphemy is a victimless crime, yet one that has been most severely dealt with in the past. Simultaneously it's a history of freedom of ex...