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Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
Journal of Social History
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September 22, 2003|
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By Alain Cabantous. Translated by Eric Rauth. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xi plus 288 pp.).
Blasphemy, or the denunciation of God, has receded in the Western world over the past two centuries as a serious moral and legal offense. In this volume, Alain Cabantous reminds us of its importance in the pre-modern world. Cabantous demonstrates the ways that blasphemy functioned as a method to control the populace's language, beliefs, and practices. Far from being incidental, blasphemy remained central to the disciplining of daily life.
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