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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Blasphemy"”.
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Blasphemy in England, c.1660-1730
… a departure from the current historiography of blasphemy, it develops a cultural history of blasphemy as representation, exploring the nexus between conceptions and perceived manifestations of blasphemy in a theological context. By focusing on how contemporaries used the terminology of blasphemy …
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Desecularization of the state as a resistance to the globalization: a case study of the criminalization of blasphemy in Russia.
… Western secular identity. The criminalization of blasphemy in 2013 has become a step to secure and to re-affirm Russian national identity.</p>
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Where worlds collide: The English criminal law and religious belief
… is raised explicitly, as in the offence of blasphemy, or subsumed within broader principles, as in the doctrines of mistake, there are substantial flaws in the criminal law. These are flaws that can be addressed by a more explicit and principled consideration of the religious interest in the …
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Religion in the works of Heinrich Heine
… his readers with an outburst of mockery or blasphemy. With a mind so tormented, and a character so complex, it is no wonder that his writings present so many conflicting views. Only one positive trait stands out bravely and convincingly, which gives color and direction to all his writings; …
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Conversion and Apostasy: Egypt in Premodern and Modern Times
… Islamic dynasties and its conflation with blasphemy. In the modern world, the paper highlights the difficulties faced by Christian converts in Egypt and the impact of personal status laws on religious freedom. By bridging the gap between pre-modern and modern Egypt, the paper aims to …
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Investigating the conflict between freedom of religion and Freedom of expression under the South African constitution
… freedom of religion of the Islamic community. Blasphemy in Islam is speech that is insulting to God, but during the course of Muslim history it has become increasingly linked with insult to the Prophet Muhammad. In Islam the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in any way is strictly forbidden and …
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
… of scholarship on medieval bestiary lore, blasphemy, poison, the Black Death, to further characterize the cultural prejudices against Jews present in <em>The Pardoner’s Tale</em> and its reflection of the intensity of religious prejudice entrenched in fourteenth-century English …
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Identity Denied: Minority-Within-Minority Discrimination and the Contradictions of British Multiculturalism
… held collective action frames, including anti-blasphemy, anti-colonialism, and Khatm-e-Nabuwwat, which are deployed to justify the exclusion of Ahmadis from wider Muslim communal life, in addition to having influence over how non-Muslim communities interact with the group.<p></p>
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Religion and public broadcasting in South Africa
… dealing with allegations of religious offense, blasphemy, defamation, and incitement to violence. From the television controversy in apartheid South Africa to postapartheid media policy and practice, the thesis uncovers issues of religious legitimation, religious regulation, freedom of …
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THE FUNCTION OF CINEMA IN THE WORKS OF GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE AND MANUEL PUIG (CUBA, ARGENTINA).
… 8 also concerns the mechanisms of parody and of "blasphemy" against the "temple" of film. The next chapter is a comparative overview of Puig and Cabrera. Common (and divergent) directorial and generic interests are discussed, as well as the influence of certain directors on the work of Puig. …
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Embodied Cultural Cognition: How Culture Is Carried by Our Bodily Experiences
… (i.e., Protestants and Muslims) condemned blasphemy and sexual fantasies equally strongly as their highly religious counterparts after assuming the ""hand washing"" posture. Together, the present research provides a novel perspective in studying culture---our body constitutes an important …
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Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1811–43: Richard Carlile and Infidel Materialism
… in prison across the 1820s and 30s on charges of blasphemy and sedition. He continued to publish throughout his imprisonment, most notably his weekly journal The Republican (1819–25), with the assistance of a nationwide network of subscribers and volunteers for his London shop. Carlile’s journals …
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Freedom of speech as a universal value (a comparative approach from international human rights law, the first amendment, and Islamic law)
… Satanic Verses and Danish cartoons, point to the blasphemy law in Islam (Sab Allah wa Sab al-Rasul). Four other controversial areas are often raised as an indication of differences between these two laws, namely, speech threatening nation security (Fitnah), defamatory speech (Qadhf and Iftira), …
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The battle of the stages : the conflict between the theatre and the institutions of government and religion in England 1660-1890
… complaints from Church and Chapel were various: blasphemy, indolence, vice, perversion (particularly of the young), consorting with unwholesome company and drawing people away from God were all cited as sins of the stage. The underlying causes ofthe censure of important religious figures as well …
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A zsidó - arab koegzisztencia kultúraszociológiai és vallástörténeti dimenziói
… precendent in Arab lands, and accusations of blasphemy at the end of the 19th century. The spread of the Jewish conspiracy theory after the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Arabic [Cairo, 1925], the adoption of fascist and Nazi ideologies by the Arab nationalist movements …