num_pages: 704
description: Leonard Levy traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. He argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is 'numb' to outrage.
language: English
title: Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie
titlecomplete: Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie
genres: History, Politics, Philosophy, Religion, Nonfiction, Law
ratings_count: 19
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press