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Análise Social
Print version ISSN 0003-2573
Abstract
GOODY, Jack. Os Taliban, Bamiyan e Nós: o Outro islâmico. Anál. Social [online]. 2005, n.173, pp.769-780. ISSN 0003-2573.
This article addresses current Western representations of Islam, taking as its point of reference the Talibans destruction of the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. The author places this event, which has been seen as proof of that movements extremist fanaticism, in the context of attitudes condemning images in several religions - Judaism, Protestant Christianity, Buddhism itself, African religions - and in secular puritan ideologies such as those which led to the vandalism during the French Revolution. The author shows how this act, far from being something exceptional and characteristic of Islamites, belongs to a set of iconoclastic puritanical attitudes which feature in the history of many societies, including Western society