Religion, violence, memory, and place
Sites of violence often provoke conflicts over memorialization, and those conflicts provide insight into the construction and use of memory as a means of achieving public recognition of past wrongs. This work examines the religious memorialization of violent acts that are linked to particular sites.
Print Book, English, 2007
Indiana University Press ; [Combined Academic, distributor], Bloomington, Ind., [Chesham], 2007
x, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780253347992, 9780253218643, 0253347998, 0253218640
1062127672
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction J. Shawn Landres and Oren Baruch StierPart 1. The Place of Memory: Theoretical Perspectives1. The Powers of Place Roger Friedland and Richard D. Hecht2. Witnessing the Archive: In Mourning William Robert3. Memory, Religion, and Conflict at Auschwitz: A Manifesto Jonathan WebberPart 2. Practicing Memory: Ritual Perspectives4. Wounded Knee: Site of Resistance and Recovery Michelene E. Pesantubbee5. Walking the Way of the Cross: German Places, Church Traditions, and Holocaust Memories Tania Oldenhage6. Finding a Place Past Night: Armenian Genocidal Memory in Diaspora Flora A. KeshgegianPart 3. The Spatial Ethics and Politics of Memory7. Vehicles of Memory: The Enola Gay and the Streetcars of Hiroshima James H. Foard8. Religion, Memory, and Violence in Rwanda Timothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa9. In the Name of Mary: Sacred Space, Sacred Property, and Absolution of Past Sins Juan A. Herrero Brasas10. Remembering Genocide: Gender Representation and the Objectification of Jewish Women at Majdanek Janet Liebman JacobsPart 4. Constructing Memory in the Contemporary World11. Indigenous Traditions, Alien Abductions: Creolized and Globalized Memory in South Africa David Chidester12. Vodou, Water, and Exile: Symbolizing Spirit and Pain in Port-au-Prince Terry Rey13. The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero James E. YoungPostscript: A Grim Geography of Remembrance Edward T. LinenthalBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex