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Blasphemy

Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie

Leonard W Levy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press

Published:28th Feb '95

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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. |Pfanz provides the definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill--two of the most critical engagements fought at Gettysburg on July 2 and 3, 1863. ""A defin

ISBN: 9780807845158

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1168g

700 pages

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