عنوان

The Sacred Orders of Finnish Political Discourse on the Revision of the Blasphemy Law

شماره

LA122861

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Sacred Orders of Finnish Political Discourse on the Revision of the Blasphemy Law

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Tuomas Äystö

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article examines how Finnish politicians constructed the legal protection of religion and the relationship between religion and society during the process of revising the blasphemy and religious insult sections of the Finnish criminal code in the late 1990s. In doing so, it analyzes their discourses on religion and the sacred. It identifies two "sacred orders" in these discourses. One is a "secular sacred order," concerned with the defense of religious plurality, secular progress, and the principles of public order and freedom of religion. The other is a "Christian sacred order"; it defends Finnish national and cultural identity, is connected to the national form of Christianity, and refers explicitly to the Christian God. These orders represent different views on the role of religion in society but, as the article shows, during the legislative process proponents of both invoked a category of religion that presumed a Christian prototype. Based on this analysis, the article suggests that theories utilizing the Durkheimian notion of the sacred should take into account issues of power, the nature of sacred things as social constructions and thus variable, and the existence of hierarchical relationships between different sacred things. This article examines how Finnish politicians constructed the legal protection of religion and the relationship between religion and society during the process of revising the blasphemy and religious insult sections of the Finnish criminal code in the late 1990s. In doing so, it analyzes their discourses on religion and the sacred. It identifies two "sacred orders" in these discourses. One is a "secular sacred order," concerned with the defense of religious plurality, secular progress, and the principles of public order and freedom of religion. The other is a "Christian sacred order"; it defends Finnish national and cultural identity, is connected to the national form of Christianity, and refers explicitly to the Christian God. These orders represent different views on the role of religion in society but, as the article shows, during the legislative process proponents of both invoked a category of religion that presumed a Christian prototype. Based on this analysis, the article suggests that theories utilizing the Durkheimian notion of the sacred should take into account issues of power, the nature of sacred things as social constructions and thus variable, and the existence of hierarchical relationships between different sacred things.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

294-321

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

64/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

blasphemy

اصطلاح موضوعی

Finland

اصطلاح موضوعی

law

اصطلاح موضوعی

politics

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

sacred

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Tuomas Äystö

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341463

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y