Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie

Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie

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Author/Contributor(s): Levy, Leonard W
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Date: 02/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Leonard Levy traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. He 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.