Blasphemy: Verbal Offense against the Sacred, from Moses to Salmon Rushdie (original) (raw)

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Blasphemy: Verbal Offense against the Sacred, from Moses to Salmon Rushdie

Sociol Relig, 1994

Dean Hammer

Abstract

... (This assertion, curiously, is foomoted to Augusane's Confessions.) Levy treats Augustine as manufac-turing persecution out of "ehborate rationaliza-tion" (p. 47), rather than asa theologian genu-inely concemed with issues of salvation and the maintenance of community. ...

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