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The Social Lives of God Pictures and Temple Statues
Jul 08 2021
By Laurel Kendall, author of Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian PlacesThe paintings of bold-faced gods in the Korean shaman’s shrine had fallen to the floor and stuck together. “They had been fighting,” the shaman said. They had caused her a season of bad luck, i