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PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-100804745234

ISBN-139780804745239

eBay Product ID (ePID)48633929

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameReligion and Cultural Memory : Ten Studies

SubjectComparative Religion, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Sociology of Religion

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, Psychology

AuthorJan ASSMANN

SeriesCultural Memory in the Present Ser.

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2005-024771

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Religion and Cultural Memoryis not only an excellent book for scholars who want to develop a timely understanding of theoretical key concepts like memory, text, myth, and ritual, but is also a stimulation introduction for anyone interested in the genisis of our cultural self-understanding." -Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, " Religion and Cultural Memory is not only an excellent book for scholars who want to develop a timely understanding of theoretical key concepts like memory, text, myth, and ritual, but is also a stimulation introduction for anyone interested in the genisis of our cultural self-understanding." - Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, " Religion and Cultural Memory is not only an excellent book for scholars who want to develop a timely understanding of theoretical key concepts like memory, text, myth, and ritual, but is also a stimulation introduction for anyone interested in the genisis of our cultural self-understanding." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, " Religion and Cultural Memory is not only an excellent book for scholars who want to develop a timely understanding of theoretical key concepts like memory, text, myth, and ritual, but is also a stimulation introduction for anyone interested in the genisis of our cultural self-understanding." — Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques

Dewey Decimal306.6

SynopsisThrough a commanding view extending over five thousand years, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory, in ten brilliant essays., 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 develops a persuasive view of the life of the past in such surface phenomena as codes, religious rites and festivals, and canonical texts on the one hand, and in the Freudian psychodrama of repressing and resurrecting the past on the other. Whereas the current fad for oral history inevitably focuses on the actual memories of the last century or so, Assmann presents a commanding view of culture extending over five thousand years. He focuses on cultural memory from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Osage Indians down to recent controversies about memorializing the Holocaust in Germany and the role of memory in the current disputes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East and between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.

LC Classification NumberBL65