Museums of World Religions : Displaying the Divine, Shaping Cultures Hardback
by Charles Orzech
Part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion series
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Critically examining the notion of ‘world religions’, Charles D. Orzech compares five purpose-built museums of world religions and their online extensions.
Inspired by the 19th and 20th century discipline of comparative religion, these museums seek to promote religious tolerance by representing religious diversity and by arguing for underlying kinship among religions.
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 20 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:14/05/2020
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- ISBN:9781350016248
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 20 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:14/05/2020
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- ISBN:9781350016248