Sacrilege: an excerpt from Austin Dacey's The Future of Blasphemy
We do not know what the first blasphemer said. We do know that he was a stranger who came...
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Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws: Christians Come Under Attack in Lahore
By Saba Imtiaz A violent mob ransacked and burned the homes of more than a hundred Christian families in...
In The World
By Natasja Sheriff The latest news on religious freedom, at home and abroad, provides the focus of this week's...
A Theory of Ethical Blasphemy
By Austin Dacey The claims of the believer and the claims of the blasphemer, so-called, are symmetrical.The value motivating...
A Spiritual Defense of "Impiety"
by Austin Dacey The trick with monotheisms is that competition comes not just from neighboring gods, but even from...
Daily Links: We Scratched Your Back Edition
Schradle's list of must reads for the week.
Punk Protest, Bad Video Art, and "Religious Insult"
by Irina Papkova there's an eerie similarity between the reaction of some Orthodox believers to Pussy Riot and the...
Everybody's Sacred Cows or Nobody's Sacred Cows? Equality for Impieties
By Austin Dacey F. M. Husain was hounded out of his native India...by Hindu conservatives outraged by his...
The Trouble With "Religious Hatred"
By Austin Dacey Opponents of hate speech laws contend that there is no evidence to suggest that the state...
A Human Right to Blaspheme?
by Austin Dacey Do you have a human right to blaspheme? Ask a philosopher and you may get two...
The Globalization of Blasphemy
by Austin Dacey The Indian Penal Code was drafted in 1837 by the Indian Law Commission...In their commentaries,...
How Blasphemy Got Personal
by Austin Dacey Fifty-six years before Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses thrust blasphemy into the spotlight of Western...
Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy
By Austin Dacey The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was meeting to address “gaps” in...
What Are Religious Human Rights?
Nora Connor: Water cooler talk around The Revealer offices keeps circling back to human rights these days (yes, we...
Atheist Solidarity with Religious Minorities?
An excerpt from Austin Dacey's review of Christopher Hitchens' new memoir, Hitch-22:
The Christian West, after all, did not...
In Defense of Relativism
03 February 2006 Austin Dacey, in one half of a pair of New York Times op-ed responses to Pope Benedict XVI’s new God-is-Love...