Negotiating the sacred II blasphemy and sacrilege in the arts

Introduction: Lines in the sand / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias -- Section I: Understanding Blasphemy and Sacrilege. Blasphemy and sacrilege: A challenge to secularisation and theories of the modern? / David Nash -- 'The devil's centres of operation': English theatre and the charge of blasphemy, 1698-1708 / David Manning -- Madonna and piano accordion: Disrupting the order of the world / Elizabeth Burns Coleman -- Materialising the sacred / Dianne McGowan -- Section II: Motivations for Artistic Blasphemy. Blasphemy and sacrilege in the novel of magic realism: Grass, Bulgakov, and Rushdie / Peter Arnds -- Les fees ont soif: Feminist, iconoclastic or blasphemous? / Maria-Suzette Fernandes-Dias -- The body of Christ: Blasphemy as a necessary transgression? / Carolyn D'Cruz and Glenn D'Cruz -- Section III: Reinterpreting Freedom of Expression. The monologue of liberalism and its imagination of the sacred in minority cultures / Jasdev Singh Rai -- Blasphemy in a pluralistic society / Jeremy Shearmur -- Section IV: Self-expression and Restriction. Blasphemy and the art of the political and devotional / Christopher Braddock -- Negotiating the sacred body in Iranian cinema(s): National, physical and cinematic embodiment in Majid Majidi's Baran (2002) / Michelle Langford -- Silence as a way of knowing in Yolngu Indigenous Australian storytelling / Caroline Josephs.