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The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings
that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life,
including cultural memory. The editors call for a postsecular turn
in memory studies which would provide a more reflective and
meaningful approach to the constant interplay between the religious
and the secular. This opens up new perspectives on the intersection
of memory and religion and helps memory scholars become more aware
of the religious roots of the language they are using in their
studies of memory. By drawing on examples from different parts of
the world, the contributors to this volume explain how the
interactions between the religious and the secular produce new
memory forms and content in the heterogenous societies of the
present-day world. These analyzed cases demonstrate that religion
has a significant impact on cultural memory, family memory and the
contemporary politics of history in secularized societies. At the
same time, politics, grassroots movements and different secular
agents and processes have so much influence on the formation of
memory by religious actors that even religious, ecclesiastic and
confessional memories are affected by the secular. This volume is
ideal for students and scholars of memory studies, religious
studies and history.
Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half
a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of
memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a
holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories of the
Gulag, and particularly the language of commemoration that
surrounds it in present-day Russian society. It focuses on four
regions of particular historical significance-the Solovetsky
Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma-to
carefully explore how memories become a social phenomenon, how
objects become heritage, and how the human need to create sites of
memory has preserved the Gulag in specific ways today.
Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War
II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the
Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular
ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical
representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political
discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book
presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and
provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in
the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still
exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians,
Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role
in this process.
Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half
a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of
memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a
holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories of the
Gulag, and particularly the language of commemoration that
surrounds it in present-day Russian society. It focuses on four
regions of particular historical significance-the Solovetsky
Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma-to
carefully explore how memories become a social phenomenon, how
objects become heritage, and how the human need to create sites of
memory has preserved the Gulag in specific ways today.
This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their
traumatic experiences of the Second World War. Despite having
access to many diverse memory frameworks typical of late modernity,
these communities primarily function within religious memory
frameworks. The book also traces how they reacted when their local
histories were incorporated into the remembrance practices of the
state. The authors draw on case studies of four vernacular
communities, notably Kalkow-Godow, Michniow, Jedwabne and Markowa,
to argue that it is still possible in the Polish countryside to
discover milieux de memoire. At the same time, they show that the
state not only uses local histories to bolster its moral capital in
the international arena, but also in matters of domestic policy.
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