Performance after Pathos
... waves of radicalisation and relaxation and is not as universal as some contemporary ideologists suggest, as quite a number of old miniatures show. The repression of such unwelcome historical complexities allows fundamentalists to create a Manichean dichotomy between Islam and the idolatrous West – t ...
... waves of radicalisation and relaxation and is not as universal as some contemporary ideologists suggest, as quite a number of old miniatures show. The repression of such unwelcome historical complexities allows fundamentalists to create a Manichean dichotomy between Islam and the idolatrous West – t ...
Aniconism in Christianity
Christianity has not generally practised aniconism, or the avoidance or prohibition of types of images, but has had an active tradition of making and venerating images of God and other religious figures. However there are periods of aniconism in Christian history, notably in the Early Christian church, in the Byzantine iconoclasm of the 8th century, and following the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, when Calvinism in particular rejected all images in churches, and this practice continues today in Calvinist churches, Fundamentalist Christianity, as well as among other evangelicals.However, the use of religious icons and images continues to be advocated by the highest level religious leaders of major Christian denominations such as Anglicans and Catholics. The veneration of icons is also a key element of the doxology of the Eastern Orthodox Church.Christian aniconism has only very rarely covered general secular images, unlike aniconism in Islam; Anabaptist groups such as the Amish are rare exceptions.