Memory -- Religious aspects

Religion and cultural memory: ten studies

by Assmann, Jan

fromCultural memory in the present

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In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He devel…

Retrieving history: memory and identity formation in the early church

by Laing, Stefana Dan

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This volume introduces the early Christian ideas of history and history writing and shows their value for developing Christian communities of the patristic era. It examines the ways early Christians related and transmitted their history: apologetics, martyrdom accounts, sacred b…

Retrieving History (Evangelical Ressourcement): Memory and Identity Formation in the Early Church

by Dan Laing, Stefana, Williams, D. H.

fromEvangelical Ressourcement Ser

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Examines the ways early Christians related and transmitted their history--apologetics, martyrdom accounts, sacred biography, and the genre of church history proper--helping readers understand how Christian identity is rooted in the faithful work of preceding generations.

The topography of remembrance: the dead, tradition and collective memory in Meso…

by Jonker, Gerdien

fromStudies in the history of religions

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The Topography of Remembrance deals with different forms of remembrance and collective memory in Mesopotamia, discussing both its public (national) and private (family) aspects. The Introduction offers a history of modern, European memory in comparison with the Mesopotamian mode…

Writing the Holy land: the Franciscans of Mount Zion and the constructio…

by Campopiano, Michele

fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

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The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the Convent of M…