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The Future of Religious Heritage: Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular book cover

1st Edition

The Future of Religious Heritage Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular

Edited By Ferdinand de Jong, José Mapril Copyright 2023
244 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such heritage as both legacy from the past and promise for the future. Drawing on case studies from across Europe, this volume addresses the intersection of three well-defined areas of research: secularism, religious heritage and the question of renewal. Considering the heritagisation of... Read more

Introduction: Temporalities of Renewal in Religious Heritage

Ferdinand de Jong

Part I: Futures of Places of Worship

1. A Museum Made Mosque: Postsecularism and the Case of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia

Stéphanie Machabée

2. Re-Living Religion: Ritual and Heritage in English Cathedrals

Simon Coleman

3. Drawing Futures in Lisbon: Diversity, Heritage, and Religion

José Mapril

4. Reconciliation and Its (Mis)uses: Rebuilding the Garrison Church in Potsdam

Agnieszka Halemba

5. ‘A House of Power’: Producing Pentecostal Heritage in Southwest Nigeria

Theo Weiss

6. Traces of the Sacred: Loss, Hope, and Potentiality in Religious Heritage in England

Ferdinand de Jong

Part II: Choreographies of Futures

7. In and Out of Sync: Temporality and Togetherness in the Church of England

Alina Apostu

8. Religious Heritage Claims to Eternity: The Salesian Passion Play in Kraków

Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska

9. Pre-enacting The Passion: Restaging Religious Heritage, Producing Unruly Audiences

Ernst van den Hemel and Irene Stengs

10. A Playful Frame for Remembrance and Renewal: Staging Hanukkah in Post-War Theatre Productions of The Diary of Anne Frank

Remco Ensel

Biography

Ferdinand de Jong is an anthropologist (PhD, University of Amsterdam). His publications include Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Senegal (Indiana UP, 2007) and Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa (co-edited with Michael Rowlands, Routledge, 2016). His most recent monograph is Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

José Mapril holds a PhD in Anthropology from ICS, University of Lisbon, with a thesis on transnationalism and religion among Bangladeshis in Portugal. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a senior researcher at CRIA NOVA. Between 2018 and 2021, José was the coordinator of the executive committee of CRIA.

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