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What makes an image offensive? - This question is addressed in this volume. It explores tensions and debates about offensive images and performative practices in various settings in and beyond Europe. Its basic premise is that a deeper understanding of what is at stake in these tensions and debates calls for a multidisciplinary conversation. The authors focus on images that appear to trigger strongly negative reactions; images that are perceived as insulting or offensive; those subject to taboos and restrictions; or those that are condemned as blasphemous. In light of recurrent acts of violence leveled against images and symbols in the contemporary, globally entangled world, addressing instances of "icono-clash" (Bruno Latour) from a new post-secular, global perspective has become a matter of urgency.

Religion and culture --- Blasphemy --- Religious pluralism --- Social aspects. --- Freedom of speech --- Libel and slander --- Offenses against religion --- Pluralism (Religion) --- Pluralism --- Religion --- Religions --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Postsäkularismus --- post-sekular --- visual culture --- religious conflict --- post-secularism --- post-secular --- populäre Ästhetik --- popular aesthetics --- politics of representation --- offensive images --- museums --- Museen --- Medienwissenschaft --- Literaturwissenschaft --- literary studies --- Kunstwissenschaft --- Kulturwissenschaft --- Islam --- imaging gender --- Hinduismus --- Hinduism --- Glaubenskonflikt --- Filmwissenschaft --- cultural studies --- co-existence --- anstößige Bilder --- artistic research --- Artistic Research --- Bildpolitik --- Bildwissenschaft --- Blasphemie --- blasphemy --- Christentum --- Christianity --- the arts --- Blasphemy.