Debate: religion and iconoclasm by Flood, FB, Elsner, J

“…Finbarr Barry Flood: Idol-breaking as image-making in the ‘Islamic state’ <br> Jas Elsner: Breaking and talking: some thoughts on iconoclasm from antiquity to the current moment…”

Killing images: Iconoclasm and the art of political insult in sixteenth and seventeenth century Portuguese India by Flores, J, Marcocci, G

“…This process included the spread of images and symbols related to several Portuguese viceroys, soon-to-be targets of acts of political insult and even political iconoclasm performed by their Portuguese opponents in a context of growing factionalism. …”

The many meanings of iconoclasm: Warrior and Christian temple-shrine destruction in late sixteenth century Japan by Strathern, A

“…Yet shrine and temple destruction had already become a relatively commonplace feature of warfare in this period of internecine struggle, exemplified by the activities of Oda Nobunaga. How was the iconoclasm of Christian converts interpreted in this context? …”

The first iconoclasm in Islam: A new history of the edict of Yazīd II (AH 104/AD 723) by Sahner, C

“…This edict is often interpreted as a precursor of Byzantine iconoclasm and as a forerunner of the Islamic doctrine of images. …”

How to do things with secrets: Secrecy and historical imagination among the Baga of Guinea by Sarro, R

“…By revisiting my ethnographic engagement with the Baga of coastal Guinea, West Africa, in this article I analyse, in the first place, the ways in which secrecy and its associated verbal arts (silence, metaphor, gesture) has worked as an ‘imagination trigger’ in a post-iconoclastic religious landscape in the 1990s and early 2000s, inviting people to create in their minds possible scenarios of pre-iconoclastic pastness and notions of ‘double-ream’, or dabal, in Baga language; in the second place, and in sharp contrast, I discuss how Baga of today, belonging to a generation historically removed from the traumatic colonial iconoclasm but facing new and dramatic environmental challenges, are relating to historical knowledge in ways that make the arts of secrecy, so prevalent in the field twenty years ago, less relevant, but that nonetheless highlight the plastic, transformative nature of African systems of secrecy. …”