Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred from Moses to Salman Rushdie. From: National Review | Date: November 29, 1993| Author: Berke, Matthew | COPYRIGHT 1993 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE bulk of this bulky volume is devoted to cataloguing and condemning religious intolerance and persecution throughout history-with overwhelming emphasis on the history of Western Christendom, and especially the Anglo-American world. Leonard Levy, a distinguished scholar of the American Constitution and a First Amendment specialist, also celebrates civilization's "inchmeal" progress toward complete freedom of expression "in the field of religious belief and experience," an ac...

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