
Appropriation as Practice of Memory
Inventions, Uses, and Transformations of Religious Memory
Böhlau (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2024
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-3-412-53142-3 (ISBN)
Shipment within 5-7 days
Description
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts. Religious appropriation is thereby conceived as practice of memory, drawing on reused - and creating transformed - narrative and visual spaces of imagination. The dimension of memory will contribute to a more differentiated typology of practices of appropriation, their forms, functions and functionalisation. Agency and power relations will be important factors in the individual contributions of this trans-disciplinary volume that links approaches from memory studies, religious history, literary studies, and art history.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Köln
Germany
Illustrations
incl. 68 coloured images
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 16 cm
Thickness: 3 cm
Weight
757 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-412-53142-3 (9783412531423)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Dimiter Daphinoff | Franziska Metzger
Appropriation as Practice of Memory
Inventions, Uses, and Transformations of Religious Memory
E-Book
11/2024
1st Edition
Böhlau
€70.00
Available for download
Persons
Editor
Dimiter Daphinoff ist emeritierter Professor für Englische Literatur an der Universität Freiburg.
Franziska Metzger ist Professorin für Geschichte an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Luzern.
Contributions
Paul Oberholzer lehrt mittelalterliche Geschichte an der Fakultät für Kirchengeschichte an der Päpstlichen Universität Gregoriana in Rom.
Jacques Picard ist Professor emeritus für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in der Moderne an der Universität Basel und Fellow der Universität Haifa - Emeritus for Modern Jewish History and Culture at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and Fellow of the University of Haifa, Israel.
Series Editor
Franziska Metzger ist Professorin für Geschichte an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Luzern.
Dimiter Daphinoff ist emeritierter Professor für Englische Literatur an der Universität Freiburg.