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Can I read Profane : Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age on EtoBox?
Profane : Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age by Grenda, Christopher S. (editor) is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Profane : Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age about?
Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary eventsÑfrom the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims videoÑindicate 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. I
Who reads Profane : Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Grenda, Christopher S. (editor)
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520277229
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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