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Demystifying the Sacred : Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today / ed. by Eveline Bouwers, David Nash.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought ; 2Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (X, 303 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110713091
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 303.6 23
LOC classification:
  • JC328.6 .D469 2022
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World -- 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World -- Part I: Blasphemy as a Companion to Violence -- 2 Violence and the Sacred, or Blasphemy during the French Revolution -- 3 Blasphemy, Religious Adherence and Political Loyalty in the Papal States (1790s through 1810s) -- 4 Blasphemy, War and Revolution: Spain, 1936 -- Part II: Blasphemy as a Form of Experienced Violence -- 5 Conflicting Narratives of Blasphemy, Heresy and Religious Reform: The Jatho Affair in Wilhelmine Germany -- 6 The Imagined Violence of Blasphemy in England -- 7 Pokémon in the Church: The Case of Ruslan Sokolovskiy and the Limits of Religious Performance in Contemporary Russia -- Part III: Violence as a Reaction to Blasphemy -- 8 Protecting Muslims' Feelings, Protecting Public Order: Tunisian Blasphemy Cases from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 9 The Sound of Blasphemy in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Vulgarity, Violence and the Crowd -- 10 The Politics of Religious Outrage: The Satanic Verses and the Ayatollah's Licence to Kill -- 11 Conclusion -- Notes on Authors -- Abstracts -- Index
Summary: Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that historians have largely ignored, yet that has considerable relevance for today's world: the powerful connection that exists between offences against the sacred and different forms of violence. Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing so, the volume reveals how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy, apostasy and sacrilege, were a companion to or acted as a trigger for physical action but also a form of how violence was experienced. More generally, it shows the importance of religious sensibilities in modern society and the violent potential contained in criticism or ridicule of the sacred and secular alike.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World -- 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World -- Part I: Blasphemy as a Companion to Violence -- 2 Violence and the Sacred, or Blasphemy during the French Revolution -- 3 Blasphemy, Religious Adherence and Political Loyalty in the Papal States (1790s through 1810s) -- 4 Blasphemy, War and Revolution: Spain, 1936 -- Part II: Blasphemy as a Form of Experienced Violence -- 5 Conflicting Narratives of Blasphemy, Heresy and Religious Reform: The Jatho Affair in Wilhelmine Germany -- 6 The Imagined Violence of Blasphemy in England -- 7 Pokémon in the Church: The Case of Ruslan Sokolovskiy and the Limits of Religious Performance in Contemporary Russia -- Part III: Violence as a Reaction to Blasphemy -- 8 Protecting Muslims' Feelings, Protecting Public Order: Tunisian Blasphemy Cases from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 9 The Sound of Blasphemy in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Vulgarity, Violence and the Crowd -- 10 The Politics of Religious Outrage: The Satanic Verses and the Ayatollah's Licence to Kill -- 11 Conclusion -- Notes on Authors -- Abstracts -- Index

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Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that historians have largely ignored, yet that has considerable relevance for today's world: the powerful connection that exists between offences against the sacred and different forms of violence. Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing so, the volume reveals how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy, apostasy and sacrilege, were a companion to or acted as a trigger for physical action but also a form of how violence was experienced. More generally, it shows the importance of religious sensibilities in modern society and the violent potential contained in criticism or ridicule of the sacred and secular alike.

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