9 Blasphemy, Multiculturalism and Free Speech in Modern Britain

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Foreword Blasphemy: A Victimless Crime or a Crime in Search of a Victim? 9
5. 1 General Introduction 17
6. 2 Blasphemy and the Law: The Fall and Rise of a Legal Non Sequitur 27
7. 3 The English Law of Blasphemy: The “Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar” 49
8. 4 On the Life and Times of the Dutch Blasphemy Law (1932–2014) 71
9. 5 Death of a Princess 111
10. 6 Rushdie’s Critics 137
11. 7 John Stuart Mill’s “If All Mankind Minus One” Tested in a Modern Blasphemy Case 157
12. 8 Religious Freedom and Blasphemy Law in a Global Context: The Concept of Religious Defamation 177
13. 9 Blasphemy, Multiculturalism and Free Speech in Modern Britain 209
14. Bibliography 235
15. List of Contributors 253
16. Index 257