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What are the worshippers worshipping?
With the worship of images prohibited by the Ten Commandments - Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. There are fundamental problems, which all religions share, in making the divine visible in the human world. How, and at what cost, do you make the unseen seen?
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