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The Future of Blasphemy

Author : Austin Dacey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441101780
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Blasphemy written by Austin Dacey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days of Moses, blasphemy was the mortal offence of failing to respect the divine. In an age of human rights, blasphemy is understood as a failure to respect persons, as insult, defamation, or "advocacy of religious hatred." The criminalisation of this personal blasphemy has been advanced at the United Nations and upheld by the European Court of Human Rights, which has asserted a universal "right to respect for religious feelings." The Future of Blasphemy turns respect on its head. Respect demands that we grant each other equal standing in the moral community, not that we never offend. Politically, respect for citizens requires a public discourse that is open to all viewpoints. Going beyond the question of free speech versus religion, The Future of Blasphemy defends an ethical model of blasphemy. Controversies surrounding sacrilege are contests over what counts as sacred, disagreements about what has central, inviolable, and incommensurable value. In such public contestation of the sacred, each of us-secular and religious alike-has equal right to speak on its behalf.

Blasphemy

Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429926910
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Blasphemy written by Douglas Preston and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Douglas Preston's Blasphemy, the world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven? Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it. The countdown begins... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws

Author : Shemeem Burney Abbas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292753071
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws written by Shemeem Burney Abbas and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the guise of Islamic law, the prophet Muhammad’s Islam, and the Qur’an, states such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh are using blasphemy laws to suppress freedom of speech. Yet the Prophet never tried or executed anyone for blasphemy, nor does the Qur’an authorize the practice. Asserting that blasphemy laws are neither Islamic nor Qur‘anic, Shemeem Burney Abbas traces the evolution of these laws from the Islamic empires that followed the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present-day Taliban. Her pathfinding study on the shari’a and gender demonstrates that Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are the inventions of a military state that manipulates discourse in the name of Islam to exclude minorities, women, free thinkers, and even children from the rights of citizenship. Abbas herself was persecuted under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, so she writes from both personal experience and years of scholarly study. Her analysis exposes the questionable motives behind Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which were resurrected during General Zia-ul-Haq’s regime of 1977–1988—motives that encompassed gaining geopolitical control of the region, including Afghanistan, in order to weaken the Soviet Union. Abbas argues that these laws created a state-sponsored “infidel” ideology that now affects global security as militant groups such as the Taliban justify violence against all “infidels” who do not subscribe to their interpretation of Islam. She builds a strong case for the suspension of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and for a return to the Prophet’s peaceful vision of social justice.

Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia

Author : Daniel Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000765024
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia written by Daniel Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the high-profile 2017 blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki ‘Ahok’ Tjahaja Purnama, as its sole case study, this book assesses whether Indonesia’s liberal democratic human rights legal regime can withstand the rise of growing Islamist majoritarian sentiment. Specifically, this book analyses whether a 2010 decision of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has rendered the liberal democratic human rights guarantees contained in Indonesia’s 1945 Constitution ineffective. Key legal documents, including the indictment issued by the North Jakarta Attorney-General and General Prosecutor, the defence’s ‘Notice of Defence’, and the North Jakarta State Court’s convicting judgment, are examined. The book shows how Islamist majoritarians in Indonesia have hijacked human rights discourse by attributing new, inaccurate meanings to key liberal democratic concepts. This has provided them with a human rights law-based justification for the prioritisation of the religious sensibilities and religious orthodoxy of Indonesia’s Muslim majority over the fundamental rights of the country’s religious minorities. While Ahok’s conviction evidences this, the book cautions that matters pertaining to public religion will remain a site of contestation in contemporary Indonesia for the foreseeable future. A groundbreaking study of the Ahok trial, the blasphemy law, and the contentious politics of religious freedom and cultural citizenship in Indonesia, this book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of religion, Islamic studies, religious studies, law and society, law and development, law reform, constitutionalism, politics, history and social change, and Southeast Asian studies.

Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression

Author : Jeroen Temperman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416918
Total Pages : 771 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression written by Jeroen Temperman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the legal ramifications of existing anti-blasphemy laws and debates the legitimacy of such laws in Western liberal democracies.

Respecting Rights?

Author : U S Commission on International Religious Freedom
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160942938
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Respecting Rights? written by U S Commission on International Religious Freedom and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines and compares the content of laws prohibiting blasphemy ("blasphemy laws") worldwide through the lens of international and human rights law principles. The laws examined in this study prohibit or criminalize the expression of opinions deemed "blasphemous," or counter to majority views or religious belief systems, and many impose serious, often criminal, penalties. Blasphemy laws are actively enforced in many states throughout the world. Many governments deem repeal not feasible or desirable and justify the prohibition and criminalization of blasphemy as necessary to promote religious harmony. This study seeks to evaluate the language and content of blasphemy laws to understand what aspects of these laws adhere to--or deviate from--international and human rights law principles. A better understanding of the laws' compliance with these principles may assist in the public policy community in developing clear, specifically-tailored recommendations for areas for reform. Related products: Explore ourFaith-Based Education resources collection Discover ourHuman Rights collection

The Blasphemy Laws

Author : John Dale
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781925801712
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Blasphemy Laws written by John Dale and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's October 2048 and an Islamist political Party has swept to power in Britain's general elections. Overnight the country is transformed by the introduction of the blasphemy laws. AnAustralian history teacher who lost his wife and daughter in a terror attack arrives in London to make contact with the leader of the Resistance. When he becomes involved with a homeless young woman, he discovers the possibility of a new life for both of them far from the dangers of the new London.

Dangerous Speech

Author : Javier Villa-Flores
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816525560
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Speech written by Javier Villa-Flores and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Speech is the first systematic treatment of blasphemous speech in colonial Mexico. This engaging social history examines the representation of blasphemy as a sin and a crime, and its repression by the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish colonists viewed blasphemy not only as an insult against God but also as a dangerous misrepresentation of the deity, which could call down his wrath in a ruinous assault on the imperial enterprise. Why then, asks Villa-Flores, did Spaniards dare to blaspheme? Having mined the period’s moral literature—philosophical works as well as royal decrees and Inquisition treatises and trial records in Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives and research libraries—Villa-Flores deftly interweaves images of daily life in colonial Mexico with vivid descriptions of human interactions to illustrate the complexity of a culture profoundly influenced by the Catholic Church. In entertaining and sometimes horrifying vignettes, the reader comes face to face with individuals who used language to assert or manipulate their identities within that repressive society. Villa-Flores offers an innovative interpretation of the social uses of blasphemous speech by focusing on specific groups—conquistadors, Spanish settlers, Spanish women, and slaves of both genders—as a lens to examine race, class, and gender relations in colonial Mexico. He finds that multiple motivations led people to resort to blasphemy through a gamut of practices ranging from catharsis and gender self-fashioning to religious rejection and active resistance. Dangerous Speech is a valuable resource for students and scholars of colonialism, the social history of language, Mexican history, and the changing relations of gender, class, and ethnicity in colonial Latin America.

Future of Blasphemy

Author : Austin Dacey
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441183922
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Future of Blasphemy written by Austin Dacey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical examination of the contemporary debates in Europe and the international community over 'incitement to religious hatred' and the 'defamation of religions'.

Sharia and the State in Pakistan

Author : Farhat Haq
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367786403
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Sharia and the State in Pakistan written by Farhat Haq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the formulation, interpretation and implementation of sharia in Pakistan and its relationship with the Pakistani state whilst addressing the complexity of sharia as a codified set of laws. Drawing on insights from Islamic studies, anthropology and legal studies to examine the interactions between ideas, institutions and political actors that have enabled blasphemy laws to become the site of continuous controversy, this book furthers the readers' understanding of Pakistani politics and presents the transformation of sharia from a pluralistic religious precepts to a set of rigid laws. Using new materials, including government documents and Urdu language newspapers, the author contextualises the larger political debate within Pakistan and utilises a comparative and historical framework to weave descriptions of various events with discussions on sharia and blasphemy. A contribution to the growing body of literature, which explores the role of state in shaping the religion and religious politics in Muslim-majority countries, this book will be of interest to academics working on South Asian Politics, Political Islam, Sharia Law, and the relationship of Religion and the State.

Baubles of Blasphemy

Author : Edwin F. Kagin
Publisher : Freethought Press
ISBN 13 : 9781887392143
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Baubles of Blasphemy written by Edwin F. Kagin and published by Freethought Press. This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baubles of Blasphemy is a rich collection of satire, poetry, and essays critical of religion, especially Christianity, and critical of self-righteousness (religious or irreligious). The book has drawn advance praise from most leading American atheists, freethinkers, and humanists.

Negotiating the Sacred

Author : Elizabeth Burns Coleman
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1920942483
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating the Sacred written by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cross-disciplinary exploration of the role of the sacred, blasphemy and sacrilege in a multicultural society brings together philosophers, theologians, lawyers, historians, curators, anthropologists and sociologists, as well as Christian, Jewish and Islamic and secular perspectives. In bringing together different disciplinary and cultural approaches, the book provides a way of broadening our conceptions of what might count as sacred, sacrilegious and blasphemous, in moral and political terms. In addition, it provides original research data on blasphemy, sacrilege and religious tolerance from a range of disciplines.

Word Crimes

Author : Joss Marsh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226506913
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Word Crimes written by Joss Marsh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1883 newspaper editor G.W. Foote stood trial three times for blasphemy. Here Joss Marsh reconstructs the forgotten cases of more than 200 working-class "blasphemers" in Victorian England, whose stubborn refusal to silence their "hooligan" voices, along with Foote, helped secure our rights to speak and write freely today. 22 photos.

Acts Against God

Author : David Nash
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142385
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Acts Against God written by David Nash and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blasphemy is a phenomenon that spans human experience, from the ancient world right up to today’s ferocious religious debates. Acts Against God is the first accessible history of this crime—its prosecution, its impact, and its punishment and suppression. While acknowledging blasphemy as an act of individuals, Acts Against God also considers the act as a widespread and constant presence in cultural, political, and religious life. Beginning in ancient Greece and the genesis of blasphemy’s link with the state, David Nash moves on to explore blasphemy in the medieval world, where it was used both as an accusation against outsiders and as a method of crusading for piety in the West. He considers how the medieval world developed the concept of heresy as a component of disciplining its populations, the first coherent phase in state control of belief. This phenomenon reached its full flowering in the Reformation, where conformity became a fixation of confessional states. The Enlightenment created agendas of individual rights where room for religious doubt pushed blasphemy into the twilight as modern humankind hoped for its demise. But, concluding in the twenty-first century, Nash shows how individuals and the state alike now seek to adopt blasphemy as a cornerstone of identity and as the means to resist the secularization and globalization of culture.

Blasphemy Online Volume 1

Author : Andrew Seiple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781695887886
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Blasphemy Online Volume 1 written by Andrew Seiple and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Royal has a hard life. He lives in a corrupt, church-controlled dystopia, his family is soon broken, and the only joy to be had comes from the escapism of his full-immersion gaming.Introduced to a new and very illegal game, he finds himself in the body of a dragon, on a quest to find a dark and evil power to serve. But the game is more than it seems, and the dragon is more than a beast. Soon Rich's life is far, far more complicated than he ever expected. And the threats against him grow, both in-game and in realspace.There is no path that will not lead to blasphemy. And the dark secrets revealed will change two worlds, before all is done...A new litrpg saga, set in Threadbare's world of Generica Online.

The Blasphemy Law

Author : Salman Shami
Publisher : Salman Shami
ISBN 13 : 9780648230205
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Blasphemy Law written by Salman Shami and published by Salman Shami. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working as an environmental engineer in a remote village in Pakistan, Jane Kelly¿s world implodes when she¿s framed for blasphemy. Not satisfied with the mandatory death penalty, her powerful enemies want her dead before the trial. Her two loves, Sergei and Razane, need to find a way to help her, but Razane is fighting her own demons from her troubled past as a Peshmerga fighter. With the feared Pakistani Intelligence breathing down their necks, they¿re running out of time, options, and hope. The Blasphemy Law explores the politics of terror in a rapidly changing country. It is a fast-paced thriller and an intense and unusual love story that takes readers on an unpredictable journey through dangerous but exciting Pakistan.

Irreversible Damage

Author : Abigail Shrier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684510465
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Irreversible Damage written by Abigail Shrier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES "Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.” Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves. Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.