What is another word for iconoclasm?

Pronunciation: [ˈa͡ɪkənˌɒklazəm] (IPA)

Iconoclasm, the destruction of religious icons or symbols, can also be described using several synonyms. One such synonym is "vandalism," which refers to the act of destroying or damaging property without any legitimate reason. Another similar term is "desecration," which means the act of disrespecting or violating something that is considered sacred. Another term used frequently to describe iconoclasm is "profanation," which refers to the act of violating or disrespecting something that is considered holy or sacred. Other words that may be used as synonyms for iconoclasm are "destruction," "demolition," and "obliteration."Ultimately, all of these synonyms refer to the act of destroying or damaging religious artifacts or symbols.

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What are the opposite words for iconoclasm?

Iconoclasm is the act of rejecting or destroying religious images or objects or other established beliefs or institutions. Antonyms for iconoclasm could be words such as reverence or respect. People who hold deep respect for religious or other established beliefs may reject any notion of iconoclasm. Another antonym could be preservation, which suggests protecting, maintaining and caring for objects or beliefs that hold significance. Those who oppose iconoclasm may seek to preserve what is existing rather than destroy it. Synonyms for iconoclasm include desecration, blasphemy, and sacrilege, while antonyms suggest values such as preservation, veneration, and respect.

Usage examples for Iconoclasm

Gordon is a wonderful painter, but he's always trying to mix up art with iconoclasm.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick
As Theophilus and his predecessors overturned the work of Irene, so Theodora immediately began to undo the iconoclastic policy of her deceased husband; and as her successors continued her policy, the regency of Theodora marks the end of iconoclasm and the permanent establishment of image worship in the churches of the East, as of the West.
"Women of Early Christianity Woman: In all ages and in all countries, Vol. 3 (of 10)"
Alfred Brittain Mitchell Carroll
Nothing is here said about riotous iconoclasm, but Lovell had been at the hanging of an image of St. Francis as early as 1543, and in many such godly exercises, or was accused of these acts of zeal.
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang

Famous quotes with Iconoclasm

  • Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Had he defended the thesis that iconoclasm is rooted in Islam itself, he would have done justice to the evidence from Islamic sources, yet he would have found it very hard to get published by Oxford University Press or reach the status of leading Islam scholar that he now enjoys. One can easily become an acclaimed scholar of Hinduism by lambasting and vilifying that religion, but Islam is somehow more demanding of respect.
    Koenraad Elst
  • One Western author who has become very popular among India’s history-writers is the American scholar Prof. Richard M. Eaton.... A selective reading of his work, focusing on his explanations but keeping most of his facts out of view, is made to serve the negationist position regarding temple destruction in the name of Islam. Yet, the numerically most important body of data presented by him concurs neatly with the classic (now dubbed “Hindutva”) account. In his oft-quoted paper “Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states”, he gives a list of “eighty” cases of Islamic temple destruction. "Only eighty", is how the secularist history-rewriters render it, but Eaton makes no claim that his list is exhaustive. Moreover, eighty isn't always eighty. Thus, in his list, we find mentioned as one instance: "1994: Benares, Ghurid army. Did the Ghurid army work one instance of temple destruction? Eaton provides his source, and there we read that in Benares, the Ghurid royal army "destroyed nearly one thousand temples, and raised mosques on their foundations. (Note that unlike Sita Ram Goel, Richard Eaton is not chided by the likes of Sanjay Subramaniam for using Elliott and Dowson's "colonialist translation.") This way, practically every one of the instances cited by Eaton must be read as actually ten, or a hundred, or as in this case even a thousand temples destroyed. Even Eaton's non-exhaustive list, presented as part of "the kind of responsible and constructive discussion that this controversial topic so badly needs", yields the same thousands of temple destructions ascribed to the Islamic rulers in most relevant pre-1989 histories of Islam and in pro-Hindu publications.... If the “eighty” (meaning thousands of) cases of Islamic iconoclasm are only a trifle, the “abounding” instances of Hindu iconoclasm, “thoroughly integrated” in Hindu political culture, can reasonably be expected to number tens of thousands. Yet, Eaton’s list, given without reference to primary sources, contains, even in a maximalist reading (i.e., counting “two” when one king takes away two idols from one enemy’s royal temple), only 18 individual cases.... In this list, cases of actual destruction amount to exactly two...
    Koenraad Elst

Related words: iconoclastic, deface, defacing, defacements, iconoclasmis, iconoclasmic, iconoclastic writings

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