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blasphemy
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blas·phe·my
/ ˈblasfəmē/
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n.
(pl. -mies)
the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk:
he was detained on charges of blasphemy|
screaming incomprehensible blasphemies.
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Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...University Press, 2002. xi plus 288 pp.). Blasphemy, or the denunciation of God, has receded...Cabantous demonstrates the ways that blasphemy functioned as a method to control the...practices. Far from being incidental, blasphemy remained central to the disciplining...
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Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism and the Final Examination of Jesus: A Philological-Historical Study of the Key Jewish Themes Impacting Mark 14:61-64
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; DARRELL L. BOCK, Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism and the...account, especially the charge of blasphemy. In contrast to much of this literature...trial narrative and its charge of blasphemy. Bock divides his work into four...
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Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism: The Charge against Jesus in Mark 14:53-65
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism: The Charge against Jesus...high priest tearing his robe and charging Jesus with blasphemy. Is the condemnation of Jesus on a charge of blasphemy historically plausible? Those who doubt the historicity...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Blasphemy laws may be extended to Muslims.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 4/24/2006; 700+ words
; ...JAMES SLACK;STEVE DOUGHTY ANCIENT blasphemy laws could be extended to protect Muslims...Ministers are mulling a change in the blasphemy laws is a surprise as they have just...ethnic background such as Jews and Sikhs. Blasphemy laws were at one stage to have been abolished...
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Analyzing the history of religious crime. Models of "passive" and "active" blasphemy since the medieval period.(SECTION I CRIME AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of the history and historiography of blasphemy placing this neglected subject within...transitions between 'passive' and 'active' blasphemy. These two categories demonstrate the location of blasphemy and its offensiveness within the medieval...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Prophet and loss: Pakistan. (blasphemy law)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/7/1994; 700+ words
; ...recently that Pakistan's blasphemy laws are applicable to all...could be argued, committing a blasphemy. The Bible itself, which...might be reckoned to contain blasphemies against Abraham, Noah, David...are in the Islamic canon. Blasphemy carries the death sentence...
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The history of blasphemy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History...925516-0. In the United States, blasphemy effectively vanished from the law when...to get to this point. For millennia blasphemy laws have been used by rulers to stifle...
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The crime of blasphemy
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 5/5/2006; 700+ words
; ...some countries, was a call to enact blasphemy laws. In France, an MP for the ruling...even put forth a draft law criminalizing blasphemy. It went nowhere in the French Parliament...countries are rightfully loath to enact blasphemy laws. They're ever so ripe for abuse...
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Analysis: Human rights activists try to reform Pakistan's blasphemy law
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...activists try to reform Pakistan's blasphemy law Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time: 9:00...are trying to reform that country's blasphemy law. The vaguely worded statute is intended...and had him thrown in jail under the blasphemy law after a crowd of protesters gathered...
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ANALYSIS RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE: The 'dead letter' law of blasphemy that can't be written off Once it was a political tool, then it fell into disuse. But as a demonstration proved yesterday, this legislation remains highly controversial
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...It had been the first prosecution for blasphemy since the 1920s when a judge had suggested...1977 it had been generally assumed that blasphemy, in legal terms, was decidedly a thing...danger to society now and the offence of blasphemy is a dead letter," he said. Indeed...
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blasphemy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
blasphemy in religion, words or actions that display...for God or that which is held sacred. Blasphemy is regarded as an offense against the...sovereign, is thus analogous; both it and blasphemy can be seen as subversive of order and...
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Blasphemy
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
BLASPHEMY The malicious or wanton reproach of God...from the love and reverence of God. Blasphemy is a common-law offense and also an...Mere use of profanity is not considered blasphemy. Blasphemy statutes are rarely, if...
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Sirmium, Blasphemy of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Sirmium, Blasphemy of. The doctrinal formula issued by the Council of Sirmium (modern Sremska Mitrovica) in 357, setting out the teaching of the...
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Censorship
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...can often be saved surreptitiously. Blasphemy, Heresy, and Atheism Socrates (c...main religions introduced doctrines of blasphemy and heresy as justifications for censorship. For the Jews blasphemy meant insult to God and was closely...
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Profanity
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...definition of profanity is similar to that for blasphemy , which refers to an act of insulting...contempt or lack of reverence for God. Blasphemy is currently understood as a pointed...Muhammad. The concepts of profanity and blasphemy form an integral part of European law...
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