Stereotypes and clichés, Christianity, eco-clichés'. Electrotype of a gold plaque from Bronze Age Mycenae.

British Museum

This little guy can give four hugs at once!

Electrotype of a gold plaque from Bronze Age Mycenae. Metal, from Germany, early 1900s. The original was made in Greece in 1600 – 1500BC and is now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

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Many Stereotypical Ideas Dominate the Image of Christianity

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The image of Christianity - like other religions - is dominated by stereotypes

Clichés are somewhat helpful - but they never produce a true picture.

Stereotypes and clichés can be found throughout all areas of life. They are helpful to some, those who need orientation and order for the foreign or unfamiliar in our world.

Yet they will also need to question the notions, because they change our perspective of others. This is also the case for stereotypical ideas of world religions.

The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement

https://books.google.com.tw/books?isbn=1136408495

Colin Porteous - 2013 - ‎Architecture

In terms of 'spirit of the age', the resonant phrase in this statement is 'without sinking into eco-clichés'. The architectural idea and the ecostrategy are as one.

stereotype 
noun [C] DISAPPROVING
a fixed idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong:
racial/sexual stereotypes
He doesn't conform to/fit/fill the national stereotype of a Frenchman.
The characters in the book are just stereotypes.

stereotype
verb [T] DISAPPROVING
to have a fixed idea about what a particular type of person is like, especially an idea that is wrong:
The study claims that British advertising stereotypes women.
We tried not to give the children sexually stereotyped toys.

stereotypical
adjective DISAPPROVING
having the qualities that you expect a particular type of person to have:
Customers are tired of the stereotypical, fast-talking salesperson.

stereotypically
adverb DISAPPROVING

cliché

ˈkliːʃeɪ/

noun

1. 1.

   a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.

   
   

   "that old cliché ‘a woman's place is in the home’"

   
   

   synonyms:

   platitude, hackneyed phrase, commonplace, banality, truism, trite phrase, banal phrase, overworked phrase, stock phrase, bromide; More

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2. 2.

   PRINTINGBRITISH

   a stereotype or electrotype.

cliché 
noun [C or U]
a comment that is very often made and is therefore not original and not interesting:
My wedding day - and I know it's a cliché - was just the happiest day of my life.

clichéd
adjective
He made some clichéd remark about the birth of his first child completely changing his life.

Christendom：(1) 基督(宗)教國：指天主教或基督教（耶穌教）徒佔多數的國家，亦即基督教國家。(2) 基督徒；基督徒世界；基督宗教界；基督宗教團體：泛指與基督宗教（包括天主教、基督教、東正教）和信徒有關的一切。

Christianity：基督宗教；基督宗教文化；基督宗教精神：(1)基督教義。(2) 基督信仰；基督宗教；基督教會；信仰基督團體：泛指耶穌基督所創立的宗教，是普世的、整體的、歷史的、啟示的、有教義的、末世的、整合的宗教，包括天主教、基督新教（耶穌教）、東正教。(3) 基督文化世界；基督徒特徵；基督徒精神。參閱 Christendom。