Negotiating the sacred : blasphemy and sacrilege in a multicultural society / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coleman, Elizabeth Burns, 1961- editor.

White, Kevin, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Offenses against religion.

Blasphemy.

Multiculturalism.

Sacrilege.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra, [Australia] : ANU E Press, 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This cross-disciplinary exploration of the role of the sacred, blasphemy and sacrilege in a multicultural society brings together philosophers, theologians, lawyers, historians, curators, anthropologists and sociologists, as well as Christian, Jewish and Islamic and secular perspectives. In bringing together different disciplinary and cultural approaches, the book provides a way of broadening our conceptions of what might count as sacred, sacrilegious and blasphemous, in moral and political terms. In addition, it provides original research data on blasphemy, sacrilege and religious tolerance from a range of disciplines.

Contents:

Negotiating the sacred in multicultural societies / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White

Section I. Religion, Sacrilege and Blasphemy in Australia. Negotiating religious dialogue: a response to the recent increase of anti-Semitism in Australia / Suzanne Rutland

Are we capable of offending God? Taking blasphemy seriously / Helen Pringle

A flaw in the nation-building process: negotiating the sacred in our multicultural society / Veronica Brady

The paradox of Islam and the challenges of modernity / Kuranda Seyit

Section II. Sacrilege and the Sacred. Stretching the sacred / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White

Sacralising the profane, profaning the sacred / Colin Tatz

Is that a human skull? All in the name of art! / Dianne McGowan

The bourgeois sacred: Unveiling the 'secular society' / Liam Dee

Section III. The State, Religion and Tolerance. From public crime to personal offence / Ian Hunter

Expressions of religiosity and blasphemy in modern societies / Riaz Hassan

Negotiating the sacred in law: Regulation of gifts motivated by religious faith / Pauline Ridge

Negotiating a religious identity in modern Japan: The Christian experience / Colin Noble

Section IV. The Future: Openness and Dogmatism. 'We already know what is good and just ... ': Idolatry and the scalpel of suspicion / Winifred Wing Han Lamb

The sacred and sacrilege

ethics not metaphysics / Eilidh St John

Resolving disputes over Aboriginal sacred sites: Some experiences in the 1990s / Hal Wootten.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9781920942472

1920942475

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459390