1 Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Stornig, Katharina

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“…Since these technologies developed greatly in the 20th and 21st centuries, photographic imageries have been used to display harm, suffering, and atrocities, but also to suggest conflict-positions using binary models of innocent victims versus violent perpetrators. Christian missionaries and organizations have been at the cradle of -what is called -'humanitarian photography' (Twomey 2012(Twomey , 2015Stornig 2018).…”

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Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Liere¹,

Meinema²

2022

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Cover illustration: The picture shows Sharhani, a border post between Iran and Iraq. This area witnessed one of heaviest confrontations during the war between these countries. Nearly five hundred unclaimed remains of combatants were found in this area. Volunteers try to match the bones, form a body, and package them. The body-sets are kept in the shrine we see in the picture, waiting for an appropriate political moment for propaganda in favor of the Islamic Republic. But the incomplete bodies are kept in the two concrete bunkers which are very spooky because it is just filled with the stack of human bones. The volunteers also collect all rusty military equipment to keep the militarized feeling alive. Photographer: Younes Saramifar.

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confidence: 99%