Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art - The Bad Boys of Bethel

'...thoughtful treatment of the deeply ambivalent, conflict-ridden relationship between children and adults.' - Kelly Bulkeley, Journal of Religion Informationen zum Autor ERIC ZIOLKOWSKI is Professor of Religion at Lafayette College. He is author of The Santification of Don Quixote: From Hildago to Priest and editor of A Museum of Faiths: Histories and Legacies of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions . In 1997 he was elected as a Life Fellow in the Society of the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture. Klappentext Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult. Originating in the biblical tale of Elisha's mockery (2 Kings 2.23-24), this motif recurs in literature, hagiography, and art, from antiquity up to our own time, strikingly defying the conventional Judeo-Christian and Romantic image of the child as a symbol of innocence. Zusammenfassung Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult. Originating in the biblical tale of Elisha's mockery (2 Kings 2.23-24), this motif recurs in literature, hagiography, and art, from antiquity up to our own time, strikingly defying the conventional Judeo-Christian and Romantic image of the child as a symbol of innocence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Boys of Bethal as Sacrilegious Type Patristic and Medieval Views of 2 Kings 2.23-24 Children of the Passion Passive Saints, Aggressive Urchins The Bethal Boys Motif at the Dawn of Modernity Nineteenth-Century Antitypes of the Bethal Boys Twentieth-Century Antitypes of the Bethal Boys Conclusion Notes Index...

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• Authors: E Ziolkowski, E. Ziolkowski, Eric J. Ziolkowski, Eric Jozef Ziolkowski
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2001
• EAN: 9780333918951
• ISBN: 978-0-333-91895-1
• No. of pages: 271
• Series: Cross Currents in Religion and Culture; Cross-Currents in Religion and; Cross Currents in Religion and Culture; Cross Currents in Religion and; Cross-Currents in Religion and
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Religion, B, Cultural Studies, Fine Arts, Fiction, Bibles, Religion: general, History of Religion, Fine Art, Religion—History, Religious Studies, general, Fine arts: art forms, Bible—Theology, Biblical Studies, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, The Arts: art forms