Playing with God – Anne Morelli

The word ‘toy’ combined with ‘religious’ generally causes some surprise… How can one play at something as serious as religion? We are used to seeing children – most often little boys – playing at war, but playing at mimicking religious rites strikes us as incongruous, even blasphemous.

Yet religious toys were once very common in our part of the world and still survive today in other parts of the world, or here at home, in a secularised form.

This is the theme explored in this richly illustrated 52-page booklet.