RELIGION AND POLITICS: DECODING THE HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY AS PRESENTED IN DAN BROWNS THE DAVINCI CODE
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This paper proceeds to study the controversial story telling of Dan Brown’s The Davinci Code. Dan Brown’s The Davinci code presents an alternative understanding of politics involved in Christianity which was considered blasphemous hence making the novel controversial. Brown involves well researched facts on Christian doctrines and institutions in his fiction The Davinci Code. This controversial content of the novel made it a hot-boiling suspense thriller that involved code cracking which triggered the curiosity of the readers thus making it a best controversial popular fiction. This paper attempts to study the historical facts present in this marvellously crafted fiction. This paper adopts a descriptive analytic method to analyse the fiction.
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