Blasphemy

by David A. Lawton and Lawton

From Jesus Christ to Salman Rushdie, from Moses to Freud, blasphemy has been a force in producing many forms of Western cultural identity. Blasphemy continues to influence our relations with other cultures, yet it is not so much an idea as a shifting rhetorical figure. It stands for whatever we deplore: we define the truths we uphold in terms of the blasphemies we attack.

"Blasphemy is an orthodoxy's way of demonizing difference," writes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215036
• ISBN13: 9780812215038
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"