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Traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. Leonard Levy argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is “numb” to outrage.

Blasphemy Verbal Offense Against the Sacred From Moses to Salman Rushdie

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Traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. Leonard Levy argues that while past sanctions against the crime have... Read more

    Publisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina
    Publication Date: 2/28/1995 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780807845158, 978-0807845158
    ISBN10: 0807845159

    Number of Pages: 700

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    Traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. Leonard Levy argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is “numb” to outrage.

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