| Sumario: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Background - Theoretical Reflections and Historical Discussions -- 1 Blasphemies Compared. An Overview -- 2 The Sacred and the Secular -- 3 Destruction. Distortion. Distraction. Three Theoretical Perspectives on Blasphemy -- 4 Blasphemy as Transgressive Speech, a Natural History -- 5 Defining Blasphemy in Medieval Europe: Christian Theology, Law, and Practice -- 6 Blasphemy Through British (Post) Colonial Eyes. The Indian Criminal Code: From a History of Sustained Paternalism to the Genesis of Hate Crime -- 7 From 'Blasphemy' to 'Hate Speech': Changing Perceptions of 'Insulting God' -- 8 Blasphemy in Islamic Tradition -- 9 The OIC and the United Nations: Framing Blasphemy as a Human Rights Violation -- Part II: Case Studies -- 10 Blasphemy and the Cultivation of Religious Sensibilities in Post-2011 Egypt -- 11 The Hindus on Trial. Blasphemy Charges and the Study of Hinduism -- 12 How Blasphemy Became an Anachronism. Free Thought and the Media Market in Late Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia -- 13 The State and the Construction of the 'Blasphemer' in Bangladesh -- 14 The Politics of Blasphemy in Indonesia -- 15 Buddha, Monks and the Minor Role of Blasphemy within the Economy of Indignation in Sri Lanka -- 16 Blasphemy and Images: Depiction and Representation in Islamic Texts and Practices. Two Muslim Cases -- 17 From Pussy Riot's Punk-Prayer to Matilda: Orthodox Believers, Critique and Religious Freedom in Russia -- Concluding Remarks -- Index.
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