Transgression
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Transgression may refer to:
Legal, religious and social
[edit]- Sin, a violation of God's Ten Commandments or other elements of God's moral law
- Crime, legal transgression, usually created by a violation of social or economic boundary
- In civil law jurisdictions, a transgression or a contravention is a smaller breach of law, similar to summary offence in common law jurisdictions
- Social transgression, violating a social norm
- Relational transgression – violation of implicit or explicit relational rules
- Haram, going beyond Islamic religious restrictions
Science and mathematics
[edit]- Transgression map in cohomology
- Transgression (geology), a relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
- Transgression (genetics) or Transgressive segregation, a peculiar case of heterosis, showing extreme phenotypes in a hybrid offspring
Literature
[edit]- Transgressions, a 1997 novel by Sarah Dunant
- Transgressions, a novel based in the English Civil War by Erastes
- Transgressions: Volume Two, a short story collection by Stephen King and John Farris
- Transgressive fiction, a literary style
Film, television, music, and art
[edit]- Transgressive art
- Transgression (1931 film), a 1931 American film directed by Herbert Brenon
- Transgression (1974 film), a 1974 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young
- Transgression (2011 film), a 2011 film starring Michael Ironside, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Jonathan Keltz, and Carlos Bardem
- Transgression (2017 film), a 2017 Bulgarian film directed by Val Todorov
- Cinema of Transgression, a film movement using shock value and humor
- Transgression (album), 2005 release from industrial metal band Fear Factory