Blasphemy Laws and Incitement to Religious Hatred:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Blasphemy Laws and Incitement to Religious Hatred: "
Silvia Angeletti

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082468
Doc. No	:	LA126097
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18710328-12341269‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Silvia Angeletti
Title & Author	:	Blasphemy Laws and Incitement to Religious Hatred: [Article] : Italian Legal Standards and Social Developments\ Silvia Angeletti
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion Human Rights
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/2-3
Page No	:	192–208
Abstract	:	Focusing on the Italian legal system, this article aims to explore old and new legal remedies applicable to cases of religious hatred. Traditionally, institutional religions are granted legal protection through criminal sanctions of blasphemy. Included in the Criminal Code since 1889 and revised in 2006, norms regarding blasphemy are conceived to protect religious feelings, which are considered as part of the inner conscience of the faithful as well as an element of collective religious identity. However, social developments and an increasingly multicultural and multi-religious society reveal questions and issues that need to be legally addressed. One of the most controversial of these is the intertwining of race and religion as grounds for hate discourse, which must be tackled through specific legal instruments, banning racial, ethnic and religious hate speech and intolerance.
Descriptor	:	anti-Semitism
Descriptor	:	blasphemy
Descriptor	:	discrimination
Descriptor	:	hate speech
Descriptor	:	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Descriptor	:	identity
Descriptor	:	Muslims
Descriptor	:	race
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	religious freedom
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18710328-12341269‬