The Great Victorian Sacrilege: Preachers, Politics and the Passion, 1879-1884

ISBN-13: 9780786473878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str.

Alan Nielsen

Opis

What happens when freedom of artistic expression offends freedom of religion? A nationwide controversy arose when America's first professional Passion play, staged in San Francisco in 1879, was pronounced a sacrilege by Protestant ministers. (Author Salmi Morse's play, The Passion, was in reality a pious description of the Gospel story).