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

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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