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Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature
on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to
pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of
godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of
religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the
volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of
disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and
paradoxes that godless people face.
What stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass
atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and
archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest
independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and
a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the book examines a version of
archival activism that is centred on various practices of
documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical
violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is
produced when a single name is added to an endless list. What do
acts of accumulation of names of the dead affirm when they are
concretised in monuments and performance events? The key premise is
that multimodal inscriptions of names of the dead entail a
political, aesthetic and conceptual movement between singularity
and multitude that honours each dead name yet conveys the scale of
a mass atrocity without reducing it to a number. Drawing on
anthropology, history, philosophy, and aesthetic theory, the book
yields a new perspective on the politics of archival and historical
justice while it critically engages with the debates on relations
and distinctions between names and numbers of the dead, monumental
art and its political effects, law and history, image and text, the
specific one and the infinite many.
Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature
on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to
pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of
godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of
religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the
volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of
disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and
paradoxes that godless people face.
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