Museums of World Religions
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-26713-8 (ISBN)
From locations in Europe (Marburg, Glasgow and St Petersburg), to North America (Quebec) to Asia (Taipei), each museum advances a particular cultural history. This book shows how the curation of the objects they contain shapes public perceptions of religion, giving material form to the discourses about religion and world religions.
Raising important questions about religion and secularity, museum displays and religious piety, Museums of World Religions questions the ideology that informs these museums. Building on recent anthropological work on the agency of religious objects, the author critiques these museums and suggests new approaches to displaying the matter of religion.
Charles D. Orzech is Reader in Religion, Conflict and Transition at the University of Glasgow, UK and Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA. He is the author of Politics and Transcendent Wisdom: The Scripture for Humane Kings in the Creation of Chinese Buddhism (1998) and General Editor of Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia (2011).
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I: Displaying the Divine: Religious Objects and Comparison
1. Comparative Religion and World Religions Museums
2. The Body of God and the Matter of Religion
Part II: Five Museums of World Religions
3. The Numinous in Marburg: Rudolf Otto’s Religionskundliche Sammlung
4. Atheism, Science, and the History of Religions: St. Petersburg’s State Museum of the History of Religions
5. Religion and Local Knowledge: Québec’s Le Musée Des Religions du Monde
6. A Dialogical Museum: The Sacred Gaze and the St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
7. A Religious Museum: The Museum of World Religions in Taipei
Conclusion: Rethinking Museums of Religions
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.03.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 322 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseführer |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-26713-9 / 1350267139 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-26713-8 / 9781350267138 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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