{"id":486,"date":"2005-08-08T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2005-08-08T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T19:50:00","slug":"486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Mutilating Pagan art<\/strong><\/p>\n

Via The Cranky Professor<\/a>, I discovered Towards an Archaeology of Iconoclasm<\/a>, a blog devoted to early Christian campaign to destroy or at least any earlier art that suggested connection to Pagan thought. The writer is a Danish graduate student in archaeology, Troels Myrup Kristensen<\/a>. The thesis<\/a> will attempt to answer questions such as who were the image-breakers? In what contexts does iconoclasm occur? What role did religious violence play in late Roman\/early Christian society? What is the larger picture?<\/p>\n

The Abrahamic religions’ hostility to art continues–witness the Taliban’s destruction of the giant Buddhist statues<\/a> in Afghanistan a few years ago.<\/p>\n

Discusing a damaged sculptural group of the Three Graces<\/a>, Kristensen notes,<\/p>\n

There were many different motives for Christians to smash pagan sculpture, and one of them was an aversion to nudity. This is clear from a series of sculptures, whose genitalia have been mutilated.<\/em><\/p>\n

Genital mutilation. What more is there to say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mutilating Pagan art Via The Cranky Professor, I discovered Towards an Archaeology of Iconoclasm, a blog devoted to early Christian campaign to destroy or at least any earlier art that suggested connection to Pagan thought. The writer is a Danish graduate student in archaeology, Troels Myrup Kristensen. 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