Blasphemy in Britain and America, 1800-1930, Volume 3

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-138-75048-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Blasphemy is the battleground where religious and secular worlds come into conflict. It has a history which reaches into issues of religious belief, freedom of expression, and is bound up with the growth and development of new media. This title draws together a variety of primary sources relating to blasphemy from the Enlightenment onwards.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nash, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

George Jacob Holyoake, ‘The Extent to which the Common Law is Applied’ (1866), C. Bradlaugh, Heresy its Utility and Morality (1870), W. A. Hunter, The Past and Present of Heresy Laws (1878), W. Heaford, ‘What Shall I do to be Damned?’ (1882), G. W. Foote, J. F. Stephen, ‘The Law on Blasphemy and Blasphemous Libel’ (1884), Daniel Ace, A Paper … Being an Exposition of the Blasphemy Laws of England (1884), R. G. Ingersoll, Real Blasphemy, a Lecture (1885), Various cartoons, Freethinker, Christmas Number (1882), Editorial Notes

Über Autor(innen)

David Nash