Making and Breaking the Gods

Making and Breaking the Gods
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Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9788771244120
ISBN-13 : 8771244123
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Book Synopsis Making and Breaking the Gods by : Troels Myrup Kristensen

Download or read book Making and Breaking the Gods written by Troels Myrup Kristensen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both textual and archaeological sources, this book discusses how Christians in Late Antiquity negotiated the sculptural environment of cities and sanctuaries in a variety of ways, ranging from creative transformations to iconoclastic performances. Their responses to pagan sculpture present a rich window into the mechanisms through which society and culture changed under the influence of Christianity. The book thus demonstrates how Christian responses to pagan sculpture rhetorically continued an old tradition of discussing visual practices and the materiality of divine representations. Focusing in particular on the Egypt and the Near East, it furthermore argues that Christian responses encompass much more than mindless violence and need to be contextualised against other social and political developments, as well as local traditions of representation.


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