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Blasphemy : verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie / by Leonard W. Levy.

By: Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Knopf, 1993Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 688 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0679402365 :Subject(s): Blasphemy -- Great Britain -- History | Blasphemy -- United States -- History | Freedom of speech -- Great Britain -- History | Freedom of speech -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 342.41/0853 | 344.102853 LOC classification: KD8073 | .L47 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The origins of the offense -- The Jewish trial of Jesus -- Christianity transforms blasphemy -- Compelling heretics -- Protestantism rediscovers blasphemy -- The fires of Smithfield -- Socinian anti-Trinitarians -- The Ranters : antinomianism run amok -- The early English Quakers -- Christianity becomes the law of the land -- Early colonial America : Gorton and the Quakers -- America from 1660 to 1800 -- England's Augustan age of toleration -- Blasphemy and obscenity -- The "Age of reason"? -- Eaton to Carlile : deism for the people -- Carlile's shopmen and free expression -- Early American state cases -- England reconsiders the law of blasphemy -- English prosecutions of the 1840s -- Bible burning and a debate revived -- Bradlaugh, Foote, and Coleridge's decency test -- The age of John W. Gott -- The American middle period : 1880-1940 -- Modern America -- The Gay news case -- The Rushdie affair : should all religions be protected or none?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The origins of the offense -- The Jewish trial of Jesus -- Christianity transforms blasphemy -- Compelling heretics -- Protestantism rediscovers blasphemy -- The fires of Smithfield -- Socinian anti-Trinitarians -- The Ranters : antinomianism run amok -- The early English Quakers -- Christianity becomes the law of the land -- Early colonial America : Gorton and the Quakers -- America from 1660 to 1800 -- England's Augustan age of toleration -- Blasphemy and obscenity -- The "Age of reason"? -- Eaton to Carlile : deism for the people -- Carlile's shopmen and free expression -- Early American state cases -- England reconsiders the law of blasphemy -- English prosecutions of the 1840s -- Bible burning and a debate revived -- Bradlaugh, Foote, and Coleridge's decency test -- The age of John W. Gott -- The American middle period : 1880-1940 -- Modern America -- The Gay news case -- The Rushdie affair : should all religions be protected or none?

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