James Noyes, "The Politics of Iconoclasm: Religion, Violence and the Culture of Image-Breaking in Christianity and Islam "
English | ISBN: 1848855656 | 2013 | 256 pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 1848855656 | 2013 | 256 pages | PDF | 12 MB
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.