Blasphemy Laws and Incitement to Religious Hatred: Italian Legal Standards and Social Developments

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...

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Main Author: Angeletti, Silvia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill, Nijhoff 2014
In: Religion and human rights
Year: 2014, Volume: 9, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 192-208
Further subjects:B Blasphemy religious freedom identity race hate speech anti-Semitism Muslims discrimination
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)