Blasphemy in Britain and America 1800-1930 Volume 1

Blasphemy is the battleground where religious and secular worlds come into conflict. It has a history which reaches into issues of religious belief, freedom of expression, and is bound up with the growth and development of new media. This title draws together a variety of primary sources relating to blasphemy from the Enlightenment onwards. General Introduction, Select Bibliography, A. Hall, Sermon, against Profane Swearing (1790), Socinian Blasphemy Exposed (1791), B. S. Hobhouse, A Treatise on Heresy (1792), An Address to the Public, from the Society for the Suppression of Vice (1802), Didactic Blasphemy Literature, Editorial Notes