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Author:   Elizabeth Burns Coleman ,  Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
ISBN:  

9781921536267

ISBN 10:   1921536268
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   01 December 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Section I: Understanding Blasphemy and Sacrilege Blasphemy and sacrilege: A challenge to secularisation and theories of the modern? 'The devil's centres of operation’: English theatre and the charge of blasphemy, 1698–1708 Madonna and piano accordion: Disrupting the order of the world Materialising the sacred Section II: Motivations for Artistic Blasphemy Blasphemy and sacrilege in the novel of magic realism: Grass, Bulgakov, and Rushdie Les fees ont soif: Feminist, iconoclastic or blasphemous? The body of Christ: Blasphemy as a necessary transgression? Section III: Reinterpreting Freedom of Expression The monologue of liberalism and its imagination of the sacred in minority cultures Blasphemy in a pluralistic society Section IV: Self-expression and Restriction Blasphemy and the art of the political and devotional Negotiating the sacred body in Iranian cinema(s): National, physical and cinematic embodiment in Majid Majidi’s Baran (2002) Silence as a way of knowing in Yolngu Indigenous Australian storytelling

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