Blasphemy in Britain and America 1800-1930 Volume 3

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. George Jacob Holyoake, ‘The Extent to which the Common Law is Applied’ (1866), C. Bradlaugh, Heresy its Utility and Morality (1870), W. A. Hunter, The Past and Present of Heresy Laws (1878), W. Heaford, ‘What Shall I do to be Damned?’ (1882), G. W. Foote, J. F. Stephen, ‘The Law on Blasphemy and Blasphemous Libel’ (1884), Daniel Ace, A Paper … Being an Exposition of the Blasphemy Laws of England (1884), R. G. Ingersoll, Real Blasphemy, a Lecture (1885), Various cartoons, Freethinker, Christmas Number (1882), Editorial Notes