The history of blasphemy.(Book review)

Contemporary Review | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History. David Nash. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]35.00. xvi + 269 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-925516-0.

In the United States, blasphemy effectively vanished from the law when, in the 1951 case about Rossellini's 'The Miracle', the Supreme Court declared that 'If there is any fixed star in our constitution... it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion'. It was one of the most potent illustrations of a constitutional principle (in ...

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