# Is Incitement to Religious Hatred The New Blasphemy?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Ivan Hare QC
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Law, Religion
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/incitement-hatred)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The criminalisation of religious speech before the ordinary courts in England began in 1676. Although the law on blasphemy was finally abolished in 2008, many of the troubling aspects of the old law remain in the form of the offence of incitement to religious hatred.

## Lectures

1. [Is Incitement to Religious Hatred The New Blasphemy?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/incitement-hatred/9ca1d412872a) (YouTube)