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Koers 74(1 & 2) 2009:285-298 285 Why the fuss over Brown’s The Da Vinci code? The dynamism of “icons” and the in/stability of meaning1 C. Lombaard Department of Christian Spirituality University of South Africa PRETORIA E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Why the fuss over Brown’s The Da Vinci code? The dynamism of “icons” and the in/stability of meaning Dan Brown’s book, “The Da Vinci code” (2003) and the sub-sequent motion picture by the same title (2006), have created a considerable stir within, but not limited to, Christian circles. The cause of the controversy is that, despite Brown’s overt pre-sentation of this work as fiction, it draws on figures, events and themes regarded in religious circles as sacred – most par-ticularly in Christian circles. Holy figures, events and themes are sensitive matters to believers: the meanings attached to them are regarded as essentially fixed, with connotations of perma-nence and eternity. Literature of many kinds, however, reinter-pret s...
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