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Multiple sacralities : rethinking sacralizations in European history
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Multiple sacralities : rethinking sacralizations in European history / edited by Bernhard Gissibl and Andrea Hofmann.
ISBN
3525302452
9783525302453
Publication
Göttingen, Germany : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Notes
"This volume originated in an international and interdisciplinary conference entitled "Beyond Secularization - (De)Sacralization in Modern European History" which took place at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz from 24th to 26th November 2021. Due to the restrictions of the Covid pandemic, it could only take place as a virtual meeting online."--Acknowledgements.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2024
Series
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz ; Beiheft 140
Ein Europa der Differenzen ; Bd. 3
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Sacralizations as cultural practices: an introduction / Bernhard Gissibl, Andrea Hofmann
Religious figurations of the sacred
Sacred matters in the radical reformation / Erin Lambert
Visible saints and contested sacralities: sacralization as sancitification in the context of colonial deathways in Boston, c. 1680-1728 / Benedikt Brunner
Questioning the canon: prayer books and Jewish reform in nineteenth-century Italy / Alessandro Grazi
Medialities of the sacred
The sound of the sacred: transfers of sacrality in contemporary choral music / Inga Mai Groote
The proliferation of crosses in Post-Communist Poland / Lucyna Przybylska
Politics and ideologies in Europe's (culture) wars
Between God and the nation: sacrificing life and sacralizing death in the First World War / Andrea Hofmann
Making the 'new man': Bat̕a, Batism and the ideologies of social engineering in interwar Czechoslovakia / Gregor Feindt
"The rightful purpose of things": the World Council of Churches and the technological society, 1937-1948 / John Carter Wood
Contested sacralizations in the Anthropocene
(De)sacralizations of nature in modern western societies / Thomas Kirchhoff
Wilderness, deep evolution, circle of life: sacralizing the Serengeti / Bernhard Gissibl
Why the Golden Calf not only had to be destroyed, but eaten: on the intricate monotheistic relation of sanctity and edibility in antiquity and the Anthropocene / Simone Horstmann
Sacralization: historical concepts and practices / Johannes Paulmann.
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