Sites of violence often provoke conflicts over memorialization. These conflicts provide insight into the construction and use of memory as a means of achieving public recognition of past wrongs. In this groundbreaking collection, scholars of religious studies, sociology, history, and political science, as well as African, Caribbean, Jewish, and Native American studies, examine the religious memorialization of violent acts that are linked to particular sites. Supported by the essays gathered here, the editors argue that memory is essential to religion and, conversely, that religion is inherent in memory. Other books have considered memory and violence, or religion and place—this collection is the first to discuss the intersection of all four.
Contributors are David Chidester, James H. Foard, Roger Friedland, Richard D. Hecht, Juan A. Herrero Brasas, Janet Liebman Jacobs, Flora A. Keshgegian, J. Shawn Landres, Edward T. Linenthal, Timothy Longman, Tania Oldenhage, Michelene E. Pesantubbee, Terry Rey, William Robert, Théoneste Rutagengwa, Oren Baruch Stier, Jonathan Webber, and James E. Young.
Edited by:
Oren Stier,
J. Shawn Landres
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9780253218643
ISBN 10: 0253218640
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 08 November 2006
Audience:
Adult education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Introduction J. Shawn Landres and Oren Baruch Stier Part 1. The Place of Memory: Theoretical Perspectives 1. The Powers of Place Roger Friedland and Richard D. Hecht 2. Witnessing the Archive: In Mourning William Robert 3. Memory, Religion, and Conflict at Auschwitz: A Manifesto Jonathan Webber Part 2. Practicing Memory: Ritual Perspectives 4. Wounded Knee: Site of Resistance and Recovery Michelene E. Pesantubbee 5. Walking the Way of the Cross: German Places, Church Traditions, and Holocaust Memories Tania Oldenhage 6. Finding a Place Past Night: Armenian Genocidal Memory in Diaspora Flora A. Keshgegian Part 3. The Spatial Ethics and Politics of Memory 7. Vehicles of Memory: The Enola Gay and the Streetcars of Hiroshima James H. Foard 8. Religion, Memory, and Violence in Rwanda Timothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa 9. In the Name of Mary: Sacred Space, Sacred Property, and Absolution of Past Sins Juan A. Herrero Brasas 10. Remembering Genocide: Gender Representation and the Objectification of Jewish Women at Majdanek Janet Liebman Jacobs Part 4. Constructing Memory in the Contemporary World 11. Indigenous Traditions, Alien Abductions: Creolized and Globalized Memory in South Africa David Chidester 12. Vodou, Water, and Exile: Symbolizing Spirit and Pain in Port-au-Prince Terry Rey 13. The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero James E. Young Postscript: A Grim Geography of Remembrance Edward T. Linenthal Bibliography List of Contributors Index
Oren Baruch Stier is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at Florida International University. He is author of Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust. J. Shawn Landres is director of research at Synagogue 3000 and a visiting research fellow at UCLA's Center for Jewish Studies. He is co-editor of After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences and Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion.
Reviews for Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place
What I like about this book is its cross-disciplinary approach-scholars in religious studies, sociology, history, anthropology, and political science as well as in African, Caribbean, Jewish, and Native American studies, examine the religious memorialization of violent acts linked to those sites... I liked this book very much.Nov. 2008 * Contemporary Sociology *
