![]() ![]() It is a discourse that erects stark dualities that are interpreted in moral categories but serve a highly socio-political rhetoric. The interpretive framework from which this phenomenon is interpreted derives from an understanding of the social function of millennialist discourse on purity as the ‘unmixing’ of the blend of light and darkness, moral and immoral, good and bad in proto-apocalyptic traditions. The argument pursued in this essay is that these acts of ‘symbolic violence’ should be understood as a kind of purity discourse. This essay focuses on a particular perspective on religious violence, namely those cases in which religious symbols are destroyed through acts of violence. ![]() New Views from the Formative Centuries of Christianity Edited by Wendy Mayer, Chris L. This is a chapter in the forthcoming volume, Reconceiving Religious Conflict. ![]()
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