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Blasphemies Compared: Transgressive Speech in a Globalised World book cover

1st Edition

Blasphemies Compared Transgressive Speech in a Globalised World

Edited By Anne Stensvold Copyright 2021
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume examines both historical developments and contemporary expressions of blasphemy across the world. The transgression of religious boundaries incurs more or less severe sanctions in various religious traditions. This book looks at how religious and political authorities use ideas about blasphemy as a means of control. In a globalised world where people of different faiths interact more... Read more

Introduction

ANNE STENSVOLD

PART I: Background – theoretical reflections and historical discussions

1. Blasphemies compared. An overview

ANNE STENSVOLD

2. The sacred and the secular

OLIVIER ROY

3. Destruction. Distortion. Distraction. Three theoretical perspectives on blasphemy

JANE SKJOLDLI

4. Blasphemy as transgressive speech, a natural history

GABRIEL LEVY

5. Defining blasphemy in medieval Europe: Christian theology, law, and practice

MARTHA G. NEWMAN

6. Blasphemy through British (post) colonial eyes. The Indian Criminal Code: from a history of sustained paternalism to the genesis of hate crime

DAVID NASH

7. From ‘blasphemy’ to ‘hate speech’: changing perceptions of ‘insulting god’

JEFFREY HAYNES

8. Blasphemy in Islamic tradition

CHRISTIAN MOE

9. The OIC and the United Nations: framing blasphemy as a human rights violation

HEINI Í SKORINI

PART II: Case studies

10. Blasphemy and the cultivation of religious sensibilities in post-2011 Egypt

MONIKA LINDBEKK AND BASSAM BAHGAT

11. The Hindus on trial. Blasphemy charges and the study of Hinduism

CLEMENS CAVALLIN

12. How blasphemy became an anachronism. Free thought and the media market in late nineteenth-century Scandinavia

DIRK JOHANNSEN

13. The state and the construction of the ‘blasphemer’ in Bangladesh

MUBASHAR HASAN AND ARILD ENGELSEN RUUD

14. The politics of blasphemy in Indonesia

CECILIE ENDRESEN AND CAROOL KERSTEN

15. Buddha, monks and the minor role of blasphemy within the economy of indignation in Sri Lanka

MICHAEL HERTZBERG

16. Blasphemy and images: depiction and representation in Islamic texts and practices. Two Muslim cases

INGVILD FLASKERUD

17. From Pussy Riot’s punk-prayer to Matilda: orthodox believers, critique and religious freedom in Russia

DMITRY UZLANER AND KRISTINA STOECKL

Concluding remarks

ANNE STENSVOLD

Biography

Anne Stensvold is Professor of the Study of Religion at IKOS (Institute of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages), University of Oslo, where she heads Religion and Value Politics research group. Among her recent publications is the edited volume Religion, State and the United Nations. Value Politics. Routledge, 2017.

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