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Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, Volume 6: Goddess Worship - Iconoclasm
Images and the visual practices that put them to work contribute significantly to the experience of those social and cultural groupings that structure human life. Clan, tribe, ancestors, congregation, family, ethnic group, race, and nation are only some of the many shared orders of social life. These forms of association configure the loyalties, obligations, and affiliations, as well as the aversions and oppositions, that shape individual and collective identity. The creation, display, gifting, veneration, ritual observation, and destruction of images all can help perform group solidarity and signal individual status within the group.
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