Seeing syncretism as visual blasphemy: critical eyes on Caodai religious architecture
The exuberant, eclectic architecture of the Caodai Holy See in French Indochina was described as a "grotesque combination" of European and Asian elements by several famous writers and this sense of horror served to construct a notion of "visual blasphemy" which merged aesthetic a...
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Material religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 30-58 |
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alternative aesthetics
B Vietnam B Blasphemy B Syncretism B COLONIAL PERSPECTIVES B New Religions |
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