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Religion and Cultural Memory

Paperback • 2005 • English

Religion and Cultural Memory

By Jan Assmann

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About the book

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 pa...Show more

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9780804745239

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Religion and Cultural Memory

Format

Paperback

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