Blasphemy in Modern Britain: 1789 to the Present
David Stewart Nash · 1999
Part 1 The law of blasphemy in Britain: origins and development blasphemy and theory - post-modern turns, Foucauldian analysis, Edward Said and orientalism, secular-isation theory Thomas Paine, William Hone and the Carlile agitations - the creation of a modern blasphemous rhetoric. Part 2 G.W. Foote and the Freethinker prosecution: blasphemy as cultural terrorism Boulter, Stewart, Pack and Gott -blasphemy, conflict and public order attempts at repeal and extension - 1913-38 Perish Judah and save the empire -christianity from below, the godless congress and the attempted extension of the blasphemy laws in 1938 silencing the love that dares to speak its name - blasphemy and the Gay News case.