Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 303 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783110713091
Series Statement:
New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought volume 2
Content:
Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that historians have largely ignored, yet that has considerable relevance for today's world: the powerful connection that exists between offences against the sacred and different forms of violence. Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing so, the volume reveals how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy, apostasy and sacrilege, were a companion to or acted as a trigger for physical action but also a form of how violence was experienced. More generally, it shows the importance of religious sensibilities in modern society and the violent potential contained in criticism or ridicule of the sacred and secular alike
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110713145
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110713022
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Demystifying the sacred Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022 ISBN 9783110713022
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110713020
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
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Gewalt
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Politik
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Gotteslästerung
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Geschichte 1789-2021
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110713091
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Author information:
Bouwers, Eveline G. 1981-
