London: Little, Brown and Company., 2000 2000 First edition. Bklack boards, gilt text. maroon endpapers. Oberammergau The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play. As new in a As New DJ. A fascinating portrait of a German village and the millennial production of its controversial Passion Play.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. 400 grammes; X, 346 pages, last 6 blank, preface by author, note on sources and acknowledgements. Dark purple coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Light rubbing to the lower book edges. Photographic dustwapper, showing a performance of the Passion play, with gilt and black writing on the front panel and spine. Rubbing and pleasing to the top dustwapper edged and rubbing to the lower dustwapper edge. A crease runs down the middle of the back strip. Legend has it that the Bavarian town Oberammergau was at risk of the black plague in mediaeval times and offered to do a Passion play every 10 years to be spared. In this book, the author looks at the millennial production of this Passion play and ".... in 1988 I learned that the villagers had voted to let reformers -- rather than traditionalists -- direct their Passion play in the year 2000. I had also heard that this reformers were interested in ridding the play of its anti-Jewish elements. The question swirling around the Oberammergau Passion play were once I had long been wrestling with: should offensive art is censored or boycotted? Why did the reconciliation of Jews and Catholics set in motion by Vatican II seem to a ground to a halt? How was one to deal with the mutual aqua sessions of collective gilt: that the Jews ( as the Passion play has long maintained ) were responsible for the death of Jesus, and that the German people were collectively responsible for the Holocaust? The making of the millennial production of Oberammergau's Passion play offered the opportunity to the front these issues directly." -- from the preface page IX. Digital image available upon request.. First British Edition. Black Boards. Good/Good. Illus. by Photographic. 12mo - up to 7 ¾" tall - Duodecimo. Cultural Studies. (more information)

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia)

Little, Brown, 2000. Hardcover. NF./NF.. no. The troubling story of the world's most famous passion play. B+W plates. Heavy book may require more postage. Hardcover (more information)

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Great Britain: Little Brown & Co. Nr Fine/Nr Fine. 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0316854654. (more information)

Offered by stevethefish (United Kingdom)

Little Brown, 2000 Hard Cover. As New/As New. 238 Pages. (more information)

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