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Blasphemy and other forms of blatant disrespect to religious beliefs have the capacity to create significant civil and even international unrest. Consequently, the sacrosanctity of religious dogmas and beliefs, stringent laws of repression and codes of moral and ethical propriety have compelled artists to live and create with occupa

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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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