Iconoclasm
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iconoclasm-169-7164082
title:
Iconoclasm
text:
Iconoclasm is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons. People who engage in or support iconoclasm are called iconoclasts, a term that has come to be figuratively applied to any individual who challenges "cherished beliefs or venerated institutions on the grounds that they are erroneous or pernicious." Conversely, one who reveres or venerates religious images is called an iconolater; in a Byz
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Destruction of religious images
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm
date created:
2001-09-28T18:10:44Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T21:54:06Z
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