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Offensive speech, religion, and the limits of the law / Nicholas Hatzis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hatzis, Nicholas, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Offenses against religion--Law and legislation.
- Offenses against religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Is a government justified in restricting speech offensive to religious belief? If so, what principles are at stake? Drawing on constitutional theory and social and political philosophy, this book discusses the normative reasons that support or negate government interference and their interaction with individual and collective religious freedom.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Nature of Offence
- Reasons for State Action
- Responses to Offensive Speech
- Religious Speech in Public Discourse
- Blasphemy and Defamation of Religions
- Discrimination and Toleration.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-181837-2
- 0-19-107608-2
- OCLC:
- 1255183957
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