Research Catalog

Title

Holocaust memory and Britain's religious-secular landscape : politics, sacrality, and diversity / David Tollerton.

Author

Tollerton, David C.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Details

Description

ix, 225 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface between public Holocaust memory in contemporary Britain and the nation's changing religious-secular landscape. In the first half of the book attention is given to the relationships between remembrance activities and Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and post-Christian communities. Such relationships are far from monolithic, being entangled in diverse histories, identities, power-structures, and notions of 'British values'. In the book's second half, the focus turns to ways in which public initiatives concerned with Holocaust commemoration and education are intertwined with evocations and perceptions of the sacred. Three state-supported endeavours are addressed in detail: Holocaust Memorial Day, plans for a major new memorial site in London, and school visits to Auschwitz. Considering these phenomena through concepts of ritual, sacred space, and pilgrimage, it is proposed that response to the Holocaust has become a key feature of Britain's 21st century religious-secular landscape. Critical consideration of these topics, it is argued, is necessary for both a better understanding of religious-secular change in modern Britain and a sustainable culture of remembrance and national self-examination. This is the first study to examine Holocaust remembrance and British religiosity/secularity in relation to one another. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Jewish studies and Holocaust Studies, as well as the Sociology of Religion, Material Religion and Secularism"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in religion

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in religion.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Study and teaching > Great Britain
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, British
• Public opinion > Great Britain
• Judaism > Relations > Islam
• Islam > Relations > Judaism
• Judaism > Relations > Christianity
• Christianity and other religions > Judaism
• Collective memory > Great Britain
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography
• Christianity
• Collective memory
• Ethnic relations
• Historiography
• Interfaith relations
• Islam
• Judaism
• Public opinion
• Public opinion, British
• Education
• Great Britain > Ethnic relations
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-3861

ISBN

• 9780367029463
• 0367029464

LCCN

2019055055

OCLC

1127931874

Author

Tollerton, David C., author.

Title

Holocaust memory and Britain's religious-secular landscape : politics, sacrality, and diversity / David Tollerton.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in religion

Routledge studies in religion.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Other Form:

Online version: Tollerton, David, Holocaust memory and britain's religious-secular landscape New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780429019708 (DLC) 2019055056

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3861