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A legal historian reviews the history of blasphemy, from Moses to Rushdie, showing what forms of speech societies have found intolerable, tracing the changing meanings of blasphemy, and discussing the costs and benefits of free speech.
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"A tour de force of lively writing and keen historical interpretation. . . . This work is both an essential casebook and an outspoken, feisty, important study of the struggle for intellectual and religious liberties."-- Publishers Weekly
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This book is about the suppression of freedom of expression in the religious belief and experience; it is also about an inchmeal progression in the scope of freedom of expression.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0679402365
- ISBN 13 9780679402367
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages688
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