In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church
What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order,
Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understa