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Slandering the Sacred
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: J. Barton Scott
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"Although blasphemy is as old as religion itself, its history has begun a new chapter in recent years. Slanders of the sacred are everywhere, as in the highly v
Slandering the Sacred
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: J. Barton Scott
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law. Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? T
Spiritual Despots
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: J. Barton Scott
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Spiritual Despots by historian of religion J. Barton Scott zeroes in on the quaint term "priestcraft" to track anticlerical polemics in Britain and South Asia d
Slandering the Jew
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Susanna Drake
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-16 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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As Christian leaders in the first through fifth centuries embraced ascetic interpretations of the Bible and practices of sexual renunciation, sexual slander—s
Burning Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Michael D. Barbezat
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian h