Taking Offense : : Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations / / edited by Christiane Kruse, Birgit Meyer, and Anne-Marie Korte.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kruse, Christiane,; Meyer, Birgit,; Korte, Anne-Marie, 1957-
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn : : Wilhelm Fink,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: dynamis.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Preface /; Introduction /; Offending Pictures. What Makes Images Powerful /; Art and Religion in a Post-Secular, Multi-Religious Society /; The Downfall of the Utopias. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Modernist Heresies /; Blasphemous Feminist Art. Incarnate Politics of Identity from a Post-Secular Perspective /; The Kaaba of New York /; From the »Religious« to the »Aesthetic« Image, or the Struggle over Art that Offends /; Destroying Krishna Imagery. What are the Limits of Academic and Artistic Freedom? /; Blood, Sweat and Tears. The Martyred Body in Chinese Performance Art /; Dirty Pictures. Vulgar Street Art in Lahore, Pakistan /; A Brief Anatomy of Offensive Imagery /; Is There such a Thing as an »Offensive Picture«? /; The Dynamics of Taking Offense. Concluding Thoughts and Outlook /; Biographies /; List of Illustrations/Image Quotations /; Taking Offense Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 3846763454
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Christiane Kruse, Birgit Meyer, and Anne-Marie Korte.

What makes an image offensive? - This question is addressed in this volume. It explores tensions and debates about offensive images and performative practices in various settings in and beyond Europe. Its basic premise is that a deeper understanding of what is at stake in these tensions and debates calls for a multidisciplinary conversation. The authors focus on images that appear to trigger strongly negative reactions; images that are perceived as insulting or offensive; those subject to taboos and restrictions; or those that are condemned as blasphemous. In light of recurrent acts of violence leveled against images and symbols in the contemporary, globally entangled world, addressing instances of "icono-clash" (Bruno Latour) from a new post-secular, global perspective has become a matter of urgency.