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Profane: Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age
ISBN: 9780520277229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events--from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video--indicate that controversy concerning blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts can be produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again. In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars examines the profound...
Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events--from the violence in 2006 that followed...
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The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
ISBN: 9781538101704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of the world s first great experiments in religious toleration. Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded Rhode Island, a colony that welcomed people of many faiths. Though stark forms of intolerance persisted, Williams commitments to faith and liberty of conscience came to define the nation and its conception of itself. Through crisp essays that show how Americans demolished old prejudices while inventing new ones, The Lively Experiment offers a comprehensive account of America s boisterous history of...
Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of the world s first great experiments in religious toleration. Insisting that religion...
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The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
ISBN: 9780812223149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice--both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking exploration of the early history of persecution and toleration. The twelve essays in this volume were composed by leading historians with an eye to the larger significance of religious tolerance and intolerance. Individual chapters examine the prosecution of religious crimes, the biblical... In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice--both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to lim... |
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