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Iconoclasm As Child's Play (Hardcover)
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Iconoclasm As Child's Play (Hardcover)
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When sacred objects were rejected during the Reformation, they were
not always burned and broken but were sometimes given to children
as toys. Play is typically seen as free and open, while iconoclasm,
even to those who deem it necessary, is violent and disenchanting.
What does it say about wider attitudes toward religious violence
and children at play that these two seemingly different activities
were sometimes one and the same? Drawing on a range of
sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on
ancient and modern theories of iconoclasm and of play, Iconoclasm
As Child's Play argues that the desire to shape and interpret the
playing of children is an important cultural force. Formerly holy
objects may have been handed over with an intent to debase them,
but play has a tendency to create new meanings and stories that
take on a life of their own. Joe Moshenska shows that this form of
iconoclasm is not only a fascinating phenomenon in its own right;
it has the potential to alter our understandings of the threshold
between the religious and the secular, the forms and functions of
play, and the nature of historical transformation and continuity.
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