Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. List of Illustrations 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World IX
5. 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World 1
6. Part I: Blasphemy as a Companion to Violence
7. 2 Violence and the Sacred, or Blasphemy during the French Revolution 33
8. 3 Blasphemy, Religious Adherence and Political Loyalty in the Papal States (1790s through 1810s) 57
9. 4 Blasphemy, War and Revolution: Spain, 1936 83
10. Part II: Blasphemy as a Form of Experienced Violence
11. 5 Conflicting Narratives of Blasphemy, Heresy and Religious Reform: The Jatho Affair in Wilhelmine Germany 111
12. 6 The Imagined Violence of Blasphemy in England 139
13. 7 Pokémon in the Church: The Case of Ruslan Sokolovskiy and the Limits of Religious Performance in Contemporary Russia 171
14. Part III: Violence as a Reaction to Blasphemy
15. 8 Protecting Muslims’ Feelings, Protecting Public Order: Tunisian Blasphemy Cases from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 197
16. 9 The Sound of Blasphemy in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Vulgarity, Violence and the Crowd 219
17. 10 The Politics of Religious Outrage: The Satanic Verses and the Ayatollah’s Licence to Kill 247
18. 11 Conclusion 277
19. Notes on Authors 287
20. Abstracts 289
21. Index 295