The fall and rise of blasphemy law /

This collection centers around two trends that currently influence freedom of expression. The first trend confirms the fact that many Western countries have become, over a long period of time, less strict about sacrilegious expression. In the process, many repealed their blasphemy laws or became les...

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Other Authors: Cliteur, P. B. (Editor), Herrenberg, Tom (Editor)
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Published: [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, [2016]
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword -- Blasphemy: A Victimless Crime or a Crime in Search of a Victim?; 1 General Introduction; 2 Blasphemy and the Law: The Fall and Rise of a Legal Non Sequitur; 3 The English Law of Blasphemy: The "Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar"; 4 On the Life and Times of the Dutch Blasphemy Law (1932-2014); 5 Death of a Princess; 6 Rushdie's Critics; 7 John Stuart Mill's "If All Mankind Minus One" Tested in a Modern Blasphemy Case; 8 Religious Freedom and Blasphemy Law in a Global Context: The Concept of Religious Defamation. 
505 8 |a 9 Blasphemy, Multiculturalism and Free Speech in Modern BritainBibliography; List of Contributors; Index. 
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