Blasphemy, Art, and the Law (Guest: Professor Brent Rodriguez-Plate)
Episode 8, Feb 28, 2022, 11:00 PM
Did you know Cardinal Pell once sued the National Gallery of Victoria on a charge of blasphemy? What does it mean for something to be blasphemous? In this episode, Professor Brent Rodriguez-Plate joins me to talk about blasphemy in law, art, and religion.
The court case discussed is captioned Pell v The Council of the Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, [1998] 2 V.R. 391. A 1998 note on the case by Bede Harris can be found in Volume 22(1) of the Melbourne University Law Review starting at page 217.
A photograph of Serrano's "Piss Christ" can be found at the artwork's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
You can find out more about Professor Rodriguez-Plate on his website, http://www.sbrentplate.net/
The Association for Public Religion in Intellectual Life has a new website at https://www.aprilonline.org/
The new Australian Journal of Law and Religion is at www.ausjlr.com
Questions or Comments? You can get in touch with me at jeremy.patrick@usq.edu.au
Theme Music: "Sunbeams in the Stained Glass" Oleksandr Viktorovych Lukyanenko, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
The court case discussed is captioned Pell v The Council of the Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, [1998] 2 V.R. 391. A 1998 note on the case by Bede Harris can be found in Volume 22(1) of the Melbourne University Law Review starting at page 217.
A photograph of Serrano's "Piss Christ" can be found at the artwork's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
You can find out more about Professor Rodriguez-Plate on his website, http://www.sbrentplate.net/
The Association for Public Religion in Intellectual Life has a new website at https://www.aprilonline.org/
The new Australian Journal of Law and Religion is at www.ausjlr.com
Questions or Comments? You can get in touch with me at jeremy.patrick@usq.edu.au
Theme Music: "Sunbeams in the Stained Glass" Oleksandr Viktorovych Lukyanenko, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons