Religion and material culture: studying religion and religious elements on the basis of objects, architecture and space : proceedings of an international conference held at the Centre for Bible and Cultural Memory (BiCuM), University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, May 6-8, 2011
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Main Author: Bredholt Christensen, Lisbeth (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Conference "Religion and Material Culture: Defining Religion, Religious Elements and Cultural Memory on the Basis of Objects, Architecture and Space" Kopenhagen (Author)
Other Authors: Tae Jensen, Jesper (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceedings Book
Language:English
Published: Turnhout Brepols 2017
Series:Antiquité et sciences humaines (ASH) 3
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Abstract:The book gathers specialists from a variety of fields to explore the possibilities of the material perspective in the study of religion. Within a diachronic perspective, archaeologists, scholars of religion, theologians, and ancient historians focus on how the gradual invention of various forms of material culture - graves, images, objects - has made it possible for certain religious expressions to be constructed, arise, and enfold. Also, the volume investigates what types of material culture characterizes religion and what these "mean". The volume represents a joint, cross-disciplinary effort to investigate religion and its various aspects with a point of departure in material culture. This means rethinking basic assumptions about religion and how to study it. Integrating material culture approaches with textual approaches, the contributions discuss the foundations for a history of religion which is not limited to a textual perspective but which is both broader and wider, both reaching back in prehistory and out to other spheres.
Item Description:Aus der Einleitung: "This volume is the proceedings of the conference "Religion and Material Culture: Defining Religion, Religious Elements and Cultural Memory on the Basis of Objects, Architecture and Space" held in Copenhagen, 4-6 May 2011."
Physical Description:378 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, 1 Karte, Pläne
ISBN:9782503569000