Focusing on the city of Zurich, this study examines the cultural and theological aspects of blasphemy in order to better understand why this should be, and to illuminate the diverse and sometimes contradictory dynamics at work.
'... Dealings with God is a meticulous and comprehensive study about blasphemy and a model of social scientific rigor and methods.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'In all, the book offers a highly insightful discussion of a sociocultural phenomenon that inseparably links religious, administrative, political and social linguistic action. It is precisely this link that historical corpus pragmatists should not lose sight of when trying to make sense of linguistic material that is encoded in statistical data.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics
