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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
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- 378 pages : illustrations, chart, map, plans; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Antiquité et sciences humaines : la traversée des frontières ; 3
- Uniform Title
- Antiquité et sciences humaines ; 3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Between mental and material : looking for the origins of religion in archaeological material / Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen -- What Is A God? / Morten W Armind -- The importance of the origins of abstraction and discourse / David A. Warburton -- Prehistoric art and religion / Emmanuel Anati -- Making the invisible visible : steps towards a ritualized corporate identity / Marion Benz -- Death, feasting and memory culture at early Neolithic Shkādrat Msaied, southern Jordan / Bo Dahl Hermansen -- The shape of the divine powers in nordic bronze age mythology / Flemming Kaul -- At the scene of cosmology construction : the religious effects of barrow building in the Nordic Bronze age / Mads Kähler Holst -- Kivig- Kivik : a bronze age collage / Klavs Randsborg -- Religion, pictoriality and materiality: a Hebrew bible perspective / Lzaakj. De Hulster -- Matter and meaning in the dead sea scrolls: reading the Genesis Apocryphon as a palimpsest / Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch -- Language and materiality : Stolpersteine in light of Roman Archaic religion / Lars Östman.
- ISBN
- 9782503569000
- 2503569005
- LCCN
- 2019421142
- 99977947933
- OCLC
- ocn969981943
- 969981943
- SCSB-9153778
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library