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Blasphemy

Here are entered works on blasphemy in the legal and theological sense of maliciously reviling God or religion. Works on profane language are entered under Swearing. Works on judicial or official oaths are entered under Oaths.

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• Blasphemy -- Sermons
• Trials (Blasphemy)

• Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts (2008), ed. by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Maria Suzette Fernandes Dias (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society (2006), ed. by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Prisoner for Blasphemy, by G. W. Foote (Gutenberg text)

• Sermons on Evil Speaking (six-sermon selection published in the 19th century), by Isaac Barrow, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)

• Prisoner for Blasphemy, by G. W. Foote (Gutenberg text)
• The Three Trials of William Hone, for Publishing Three Parodies, viz. The Late John Wilkes's Catechism, The Political Litany, and The Sinecurist's Creed, on Three Ex-Officio Informations, at Guildhall, London, During Three Successive Days, December 18, 19, and 20, 1817 (bound with previously printed accounts of each trial, each with its own title page; London: W. Hone, 1818), ed. by William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trial of Christ, From a Legal and Scriptural Viewpoint (St. Louis, Mo.: Thomas Law Book Company, c1948), by David K. Breed (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Raphael Cohen-Almagor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech and Respect (Hamlyn Lectures, #44; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1994), by Richard L. Abel (PDF in the UK)
• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (2008), by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Seán Ó Siochrú, contrib. by Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Suppression Stories (1997), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• The Limits of Religious Tolerance (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2016), by Alan Levinovitz (HTML and PDF with commentary at Amherst)
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)
• We Want a University (ca. 1965), by Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.), contrib. by Neal Blumenfeld (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Berkeley Case: Issues in Student Academic Freedom; A Brief Critique (second edition, 1965), by Roland Liebert (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• Chile, Progress Stalled: Setbacks in Freedom of Expression Reform (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2001), by Sebastian Brett (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)
• Limits of Tolerance: Freedom of Expression and the Public Debate in Chile, by Sebastian Brett (HTML at hrw.org)

• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Nigeria: Renewed Crackdown on Freedom of Expression (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2003), by Carina Tertsakian (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• A Voice in the Wilderness: A Magazine of Sane Radicalism (1917-1920; from a reprint edition), ed. by William J. Robinson (full serial archives)

• Language and War: Letter to a Friend Concerning Stalin's Article on Linguistics (Yonkers, NY: The author, c1950), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust)

• "EuroMaydan": Human Rights Violations During Protests in Ukraine (2013), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Freedom of Speech at U.S. Universities (2016), by American Center of P.E.N. (PDF with commentary at pen.org)
• The Silencing of Student Voices: Preserving Free Speech in America's Schools (Nashville, TN: First Amendment Center, c2003), by David L. Hudson
  • Pages 1-35: PDF at freedomforuminstitute.org
  • Pages 36-76: PDF at freedomforuminstitute.org
  • Pages 77-100: PDF at freedomforuminstitute.org
• Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by John Palfrey (illustrated HTML at bravespaces.org)
• First Amendment: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2016), by Ruthann Robson (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)
• Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business (second edition; San Francisco: ACLU of California, 2012), by Nicole A. Ozer and Chris Conley (HTML and PDF with commentary at aclunc-tech.org)
• FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus (2005), by Harvey A. Silverglate, David A. French, and Greg Lukianoff (PDF files with commentary at thefire.org)
• The Free and the Brave: A Letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee on the Mundt-Nixon Bill (New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1950), by Zechariah Chafee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government (New York: Harper, 1948), by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at Wisconsin)
• Hate and the Internet (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1999), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution (Detroit: News and Letters, 1965), by Mario Savio, Eugene Walker, and Raya Dunayevskaya, contrib. by Joel L. Pimsleur (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Debs Decision (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919), by Scott Nearing (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Espionage Act Cases, With Certain Others on Related Points: New Law in Making as to Criminal Utterance In War-Time (New York: National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1918), ed. by Walter Nelles (page images at HathiTrust)
• President Lincoln's Views: An Important Letter on the Principles Involved in the Vallandigham Case (Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1863), by Abraham Lincoln
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society (c1919), contrib. by Scott Nearing and Morris Hillquit (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mr. Justice Black and his Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Tinsley E. Yarbrough (page images at HathiTrust)

• Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics; With an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps Being Taken and Required to Curb It (4 volumes; Albany: J. B. Lyon and Co., 1920), by New York (State) Legislature Joint Committee Investigating Seditious Activities
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• Espionage Act Cases, With Certain Others on Related Points: New Law in Making as to Criminal Utterance In War-Time (New York: National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1918), ed. by Walter Nelles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Socialism on Trial: The Courtroom Testimony of James P. Cannon (Chippendale, NSW: Resistance Books, 1999), by James Patrick Cannon, contrib. by Dave Holmes and George Edward Novack (HTML at marxists.org)
• Socialism on Trial: The Official Court Record of James P. Cannon's Testimony in the Famous Minneapolis "Sedition" Trial (New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1942), by James Patrick Cannon, contrib. by Felix Morrow (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Tryal of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer, Who Was Lately Try'd and Acquitted for Printing and Publishing a Libel Against the Government; With the Pleadings and Arguments on Both Sides (fourth edition; London: Printred for J. Wilford, 1738) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Trial of Christ, From a Legal and Scriptural Viewpoint (St. Louis, Mo.: Thomas Law Book Company, c1948), by David K. Breed (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), ed. by Ralf Grüttemeier, contrib. by Gisèle Sapiro, Anton Kirchhofer, Ted Laros, K. Beekman, Claudia Lieb, Sylvia Sasse, Katharina Hupe, Peter D. McDonald, and Martin A. Kayman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), by Daniel J. Solove (PDF files with commentary at GWU)
• Detraction Displayed (New York: Orville A. Roorbach, 1828), by Amelia Opie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Government of the Tongue (second impression, 1674), by Richard Allestree (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Government of the Tongue (third impression; 1675), by Richard Allestree
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Criminal Libel and the Duty of Juries, by Joseph Towers and Francis Maseres (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)
• Hypocrisy Unveiled, and Calumny Detected, in a Review of Blackwood's Magazine (based on a 1818 Pilland edition, sometimes misattributed to James Grahame), by Macvey Napier, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe, contrib. by James Grahame (TEI XML and page images at Lord Byron and His Times)
• Hypocrisy Unveiled, and Calumny Detected, in a Review of Blackwood's Magazine (sometimes misattributed to James Grahame; fourth edition; Edinburgh: F. Pillans, 1818), by Macvey Napier, contrib. by James Grahame (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.