Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie

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.

Author: Leonard W. Levy
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/20/1995
Pages: 704
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.27lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.16w x 1.68d
ISBN: 9780807845158

About the Author
Levy, Leonard W.: - Leonard W. Levy was Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the Claremont Graduate School and author of The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Origins of the Fifth Amendment.