David Lawton is Professor of English at the University of Tasmania.
"Blasphemy is the most subtle meditation on colonialism and European cultural imperialism (internal and external) that I know. In the American context, much of this book is as apposite to the activities of Ms Tipper Gore as it clearly is to the Rushdie case."-Daniel Boyarin, author of Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity "A remarkable book, full of fascinating and sometimes colorfully lurid detail, but with an urgent and even necessary message for the present moment. Wise, generous, and humane, precisely because it does not let us rest easy upon any of our assumptions,"-John Ganim, University of California, Riverside "If David Lawton is right in saying that freedom of religious opinion leads to aggressive fundamentalisms, which are likely in their turn to use blasphemy as an ideological and political weapon, then what we have is a problem that may turn very nasty indeed."-Frank Kermode, New Republic
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