Negotiating the sacred II : blasphemy and sacrilege in the arts /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Coleman, Elizabeth Burns, 1961-, Fernandes Dias, Maria Suzette
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Arts and religion. Offenses against religion. Blasphemy. Sacrilege. Religion and sociology. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Lines in the sand / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias
Section I: Understanding Blasphemy and Sacrilege. Blasphemy and sacrilege: A challenge to secularisation and theories of the modern? / David Nash
'The devil's centres of operation': English theatre and the charge of blasphemy, 1698-1708 / David Manning
Madonna and piano accordion: Disrupting the order of the world / Elizabeth Burns Coleman
Materialising the sacred / Dianne McGowan
Section II: Motivations for Artistic Blasphemy. Blasphemy and sacrilege in the novel of magic realism: Grass, Bulgakov, and Rushdie / Peter Arnds
Les fees ont soif: Feminist, iconoclastic or blasphemous? / Maria-Suzette Fernandes-Dias
The body of Christ: Blasphemy as a necessary transgression? / Carolyn D'Cruz and Glenn D'Cruz
Section III: Reinterpreting Freedom of Expression. The monologue of liberalism and its imagination of the sacred in minority cultures / Jasdev Singh Rai
Blasphemy in a pluralistic society / Jeremy Shearmur
Section IV: Self-expression and Restriction. Blasphemy and the art of the political and devotional / Christopher Braddock
Negotiating the sacred body in Iranian cinema(s): National, physical and cinematic embodiment in Majid Majidi's Baran (2002) / Michelle Langford
Silence as a way of knowing in Yolngu Indigenous Australian storytelling / Caroline Josephs.