10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROFANATORY»
Discover the use of
profanatory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
profanatory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Religious Actors in International Law
to others and profanatory'.134 This duty—to take the more recent term—could
have unusual implications if applied to a religious non-state actor. One can see
how some 'citizens' of Christian faith may take great offence and feel deep
outrage ...
2
Garner's Modern American Usage
See pro and con. profane;
profanatory. What is profane is irreverent or
blasphemous <a profane insult>; what is
profanatory tends to make something
profane <drink had a
profanatory influence on him>. PROFANITY. To put it
politely, profanity ...
3
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: ...
19 Profanatory Moments if the sacred and the profane are obverses of each other
, they are so in the way that two sides of a Moebius strip are obverses: strictly
opposed to each other yet occupying the same space, they also turn into each ...
William Randolph Robins, Robert William Epstein, 2010
4
Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
See pro and con. profane; profanatory. That which is profane is irreverent or
blasphemous; that which is profanatory tends to make (something) profane.
proferens = the party that proposes or adduces a contract or a condition in a
contract.
5
The Pentecostal Principle: Ethical Methodology in New Spirit
opher Giorgio Agamben argues that the current phase of capitalism is “a gigantic
apparatus for capturing pure means, that is, profanatory behaviors.”3 Politics
does not operate as pure means; it principally refers to ac- tivities determined by
...
6
Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power
... mouse: 'and yet, this play stages the very same behaviours that define hunting'.
27 With this example Agamben seeks to demonstrate the profanatory potential in
play as a means of creating a new use of something by deactivating an old one ...
Nick Vaughan-Williams, 2009
7
Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism
The complexity of such profanatory action lies in that 'the creation of a new use is
possible only by deactivating an old use, rendering it inoperative';62 and also
from the fact that after profanation the world does not appear destructed or totally
...
8
Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio ...
... or exta: the liver, heart, gallbladder, lungs)” are reserved for the Gods, but, on
being touched, become edible again.98 Agamben's favorite profanatory praxis,
however, is play. Tracing the origins of popular children's games to religious
rituals ...
9
Religious Freedom in India: Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion
“Capitalism” in particular, he argues, “is nothing but a gigantic apparatus for
capturing pure means, that is profanatory behaviors” (2007: 87). These
apparatuses of power convert the profane to what is unprofanable: “everything
that is ...
10
Proust and the profanation of the Jewish mother
The passage does not state that all erotic pleasure is profanatory any more than it
describes sexuality as the exclusive indicator of profanation. In fact, the other text
of the same general time period to treat this theme, the play scenario, indicates ...
Lawrence Scott Lerner, 1997
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROFANATORY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
profanatory is used in the context of the following news items.
“Visions of Ecstasy”: Blasphemy Lite
... of veneration, gratuitously offensive to others and profanatory.” There the matter stood until the June 2007 repeal of Britain's blasphemy law. «ARTINFO, Mar 13»
Prometheus: To Create, You Must Destroy…
The Space Jockey is disgusted and in turn rips off the android's head and beats the profanatory old man to death with it. Side Note: I just ... «Geeks of Doom, Jun 12»
A Three Stooges Porn Parody?! What's the Idea?
... Donohue, the Catholic Legion of Decency's head gansa macher condemned the film for its profanatory depiction of a nun wearing a bikini. «San Diego Reader, Apr 12»
Visions Of Ecstasy gets UK rating after 23 year ban
... a duty to avoid as far as possible an expression that is, in regard to objects of veneration, gratuitously offensive to others and profanatory". «BBC News, Jan 12»
