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


edited by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen and Jesper Tae Jensen
Bok Engelsk 2017 · Konferenzschrift
Medvirkende
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375 sider : illustrasjoner
Opplysninger
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.
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Konferenzschrift : (DE-588)1071861417
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ISBN
2503569005. - 9782503569000

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