Editing Iconoclasm (section)

=== Other instances ===
In Japan during the early modern age, the [[Christianity in Japan|spread of Catholicism]] also involved the repulsion of non-Christian religious structures, including Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines and figures. At times of conflict with rivals or some time after the conversion of several [[daimyo]]s, Christian converts would often destroy Buddhist and Shinto religious structures.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Strathern |first=Alan |date=2020 |title=The Many Meanings of Iconoclasm: Warrior and Christian Temple-Shrine Destruction in Late Sixteenth Century Japan |journal=Journal of Early Modern History |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=163–193 |doi=10.1163/15700658-bja10023 |s2cid=229468278 |issn=1385-3783|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Many of the [[moai]] of [[Easter Island]] were [[History of Easter Island#The "statue-toppling"|toppled during the 18th century]] in the iconoclasm of civil wars before any European encounter.<ref>{{cite book | last=Fischer | first=Steven Roger | title=Island at the end of the world: The turbulent history of Easter Island | publisher=Reaktion | publication-place=London | year=2006 | isbn=1-86189-282-9 | oclc=646808462 |page=64}}</ref> Other instances of iconoclasm may have occurred throughout Eastern Polynesia during its conversion to Christianity in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wellington|first=Victoria University of|date=April 4, 2014|title=New view of Polynesian conversion to Christianity|url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/victorious/2013/autumn-2013/new-view-of-polynesian-conversion-to-christianity|website=Victoria University of Wellington}}</ref>

After the [[Second Vatican Council]] in the late 20th century, some Roman Catholic parish churches [[Wreckovation|discarded]] much of their traditional imagery and art which critics call iconoclasm.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chessman|first=Stuart|title=Hetzendorf and the Iconoclasm in the Second Half of the 20th Century|url=http://sthughofcluny.org/2011/02/hetzendorf-and-the-iconoclasm-in-the-second-half-of-the-20th-century.html|access-date=2013-04-30|publisher=The Society of St. Hugh of Cluny}}</ref>