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Propositional objects > Blasphemy

Preferred term

2265Blasphemy  

Broader concept

Scope note

  • Statement or attitude that is considered as a profanation of established religious orders, beliefs and morals. Blasphemy is in fact a social transgression that is taken to embody disrespect and threat for the established order, and often induces punishment. Therefore, it is a culturally relative category that is framed in terms of the orthodox discourses and the institutions that define it and interpret/ rerpoduce it.

Source

  • Lawton 1993
  • Levy 1995

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Tzedopoulos Giorgos (AA)

Notation

  • 2265

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