David Nash, "Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History"
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0199255164 | 2007 | PDF | 3 MB | 286 pages
David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity.
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