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Language: en
Pages: 771
Pages: 771
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book details the legal ramifications of existing anti-blasphemy laws and debates the legitimacy of such laws in Western liberal democracies.
Language: en
Pages: 63
Pages: 63
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-05 - Publisher: Little, Brown
An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stéphane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions. On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed t
Language: en
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-09 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are th
Language: en
Pages: 152
Pages: 152
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08 - Publisher: Government Printing Office
This report examines and compares the content of laws prohibiting blasphemy ("blasphemy laws") worldwide through the lens of international and human rights law
Language: en
Pages: 708
Pages: 708
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order,