In March 2001 the world watched in disbelief as explosives of
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban reduced the gigantic Buddha statues at
Bamiyan to stone powder. Yet few realise that such religious zeal
to 'free' the world from 'pagan' art follows an old tradition. What
role did it play in transforming the colourful world of Roman
paganism into medieval Christianity? All over the ancient world
images have been found which bear deep scar marks from iconoclastic
attacks. Beheaded statues and mutilated fragments of images, once
the objects of veneration and awe, speak a language as clear as
words. As Ebehard Sauer shows in this important new work, the sad
material remains of what survived the onslaught of the image-haters
form a powerful complement to eyewitness accounts. Archaeology
helps us to understand one of the most radical changes in world
history. Why was it that Christianity achieved sole domination in
the West but remained a minority religion in much of Asia? Can the
past help us to put the outrages of the present into context?
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