Appropriation as Practice of Memory: Inventions, Uses, and Transformations of Religious Memory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783412531423)

This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts. Religious appropriation is thereby conceived as practice of memory, drawing on reused - and creating transformed - narrative and visual spaces of imagination. The dimension of memory will contribute to a more differentiated typology of practices of appropriation, their forms, functions and functionalisation. Agency and power relations will be important factors in the individual contributions of this trans-disciplinary volume that links approaches from memory studies, religious history, literary studies, and art history.

Author: Dimiter Daphinoff
ISBN-10: 3412531421
ISBN-13: 9783412531423
Publisher: Bohlau Verlag Koln
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2024
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d