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Blasphemy : verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie / Leonard W. Levy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blasphemy--Great Britain--History.
- Blasphemy.
- Blasphemy--United States--History.
- Freedom of speech--Great Britain--History.
- Freedom of speech.
- Freedom of speech--United States--History.
- Great Britain.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 688 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
- Contents:
- Origins of the offense
- The Jewish trial of Jesus
- Christianity transforms blasphemy
- Compelling heretics
- Protestantism rediscovers blasphemy
- The fires of Smithfield
- Socinian anti-Trinitarians
- The ranters: antinomianism run amok
- The early English Quakers
- Christianity becomes the law of the land
- Early colonial America: Gorton and the Quakers
- American from 1660 to 1800
- England's Augustan age of toleration
- Blasphemy and obscenity
- The "age of reason"
- Eaton to Carlile: deism for the people
- Carlile's shopmen and free expression
- Early American state cases
- England reconsiders the law of blasphemy
- English prosecutions of the 1840s
- Bible burning and a debate revived
- Bradlaugh, Foote, and Coleridge's decency test
- The age of John W. Gott
- The American middle period: 1880-1940
- Modern America
- The gay news case
- The Rushdie affair: should all religions be protected or none?
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-659) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807845159
- 9780807845158
- OCLC:
- 31045017
- Publisher Number:
- 99992851350
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