The Politics of Iconoclasm: Religion, Violence and the Culture of Image-Breaking in Christianity and Islam
Book Details
Author(s)
James Noyes
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
ISBN / ASIN
1848855656
ISBN-13
9781848855656
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#3,038,545
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Description
From sixteenth-century Geneva to urban developments in Mecca today, The Politics of Iconoclasm offers a bold and original history of image-breaking and of the culture of violence and its paradoxical roots in the desire for renewal. Examining these dynamics of nationhood, technology, destruction and memory, a historical journey is described in which the temple is razed and replaced by the machine.
