Biblical blaspheming: trials of the sacred for a secular age
This book explores the strange persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies by examining how accepted and prohibited ways of talking and thinking about the Bible and religion have changed over time. In a series of wide-ranging studies engaging disciplines such as politics, lite...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Bible Controversial literature B Bible B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc B Bible ; Controversial literature |
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| Summary: | This book explores the strange persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies by examining how accepted and prohibited ways of talking and thinking about the Bible and religion have changed over time. In a series of wide-ranging studies engaging disciplines such as politics, literature and visual theory, Yvonne Sherwood brings the Bible into dialogue with a host of interlocutors including John Locke, John Donne and the 9/11 hijackers, as well as artists such as Sarah Lucas and René Magritte. Questions addressed include: • What is the origin of the common belief that the Bible, as opposed to the Qur'an, underpins liberal democratic values? • What kind of artworks does the biblical God specialise in? • If pre-modern Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to scripture can be more 'critical' than contemporary speech about religion, how does this affect our understanding of secularity, modernity and critique? The persistence of blasphemy : the Bible as a public edifice in the secular state -- The exquisite fruit-corpse : the surrealist works of God -- Prophetic scatology : prophecy and the art of sensation -- A recently discovered letter from Isaac to Abraham (annotated) -- Passion-binding-passion : sacrifice, masochism and the subject -- 'Not with a bang but a whimper' : shrunken eschatologies of the twentieth/twentieth-first centuries and the Bible -- The fear of loss inherent in writing : Jeremiah 36 as the story of a self-conscious scroll / co-written with Mark Brummitt -- John Donne and the Baroque prophets -- On the genesis of the alliance between the Bible and rights -- Binding-unbinding : pre-critical 'critique' in pre-modern Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to the 'sacrifice' of Abraham/Ibrahim's son |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 113903524X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139035248 |