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The Sign of the Cross - From Golgotha to Genocide (Paperback)
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The Sign of the Cross - From Golgotha to Genocide (Paperback)
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This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of
the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the
conscious and unconscious influence of this visual symbol through
time. What began as the crucifixion of a Jewish troublemaker in
Roman-occupied Judea in the first century eventually gave rise to a
broad spectrum of readings of the instrument used to accomplish
such a punishment, a cross. The author argues that Jesus was a
provocative, grandiose masochist whose suffering and death
initially signified redemption for believers. This idea gradually
morphed into a Christian sense of freedom to persecute and wage war
against non-believers, however, as can be seen in the Crusades
("wars of the cross"). Many believers even construed the murder of
their savior as a crime perpetrated by "the Jews," and this
paranoid notion culminated in the mass murder of European Jews
under the sign of the Nazi hooked cross (Hakenkreuz).
Rancour-Laferriere's book is expertly written and argued; it will
be readable to a large audience because it touches on many areas of
controversy, interest, and scholarship. The work is critical, but
not unfair; it employs psychoanalysis, art history (the study of
the symbol of the cross in works of art), religion and religious
texts, and world history generally. The interweaving of these
various themes is what gives this work its ability to draw in
readers and will ultimately be what keeps the reader interested
through the conclusion.
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