TY  - BOOK
ED  - Cliteur, Paul
ED  - Herrenberg, Tom
AB  - "This volume centers around two trends that currently influence freedom of expression. The first trend confirms the fact that many Western countries have become, over a long period of time, less strict about sacrilegious expression. In the process, many repealed their blasphemy laws or became less harsh in their punishment of blasphemy, hence “the fall of blasphemy law”.     The second trend manifests an opposite movement, hence “the rise of blasphemy law”. Over the last decades, namely, Western societies have witnessed multiple attempts to suppress speech that defames religion. To be sure, one particularly vicious way of re-energizing these interdicts against blasphemy has come from radical believers intent upon removing blasphemy from the public domain by violent means.   "
DO  - 10.24415/9789087282684
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37743
ID  - OAPEN ID: 45401
KW  - freedom of expression
KW  - censorship
KW  - blasphemy
KW  - multicultural democracies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37743/1/The_Fall_and_Rise_of_Blasphemy_Law.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34565
PB  - Leiden University Press
PP  - Leiden
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9789400602717
SN  - 9789400602724
TI  - The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Lawnull
ER  - 
