Religion and cultural memory:ten studies

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Assmann Jan.
Group Author: Livingstone Rodney.
Published: Stanford University Press,
Publisher Address: Stanford, Calif.
Publication Dates: 2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Subjects:
Item Description: Religion und kulturelles Ged··achtnis.
Carrier Form: x, 222 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0804745226 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804745222 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804745234 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804745239 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: B91
CLC: B91
Call Number: B91/A848
Contents: Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : what is 'cultural memory'? -- Invisible religion and cultural memory -- Monotheism, memory, and trauma : reflections on Freud's book on Moses -- Five stages on the road to the canon : tradition and written culture in ancient Israel and early Judaism -- Remembering in order to belong : writing, memory, and identity -- Cultural texts suspended between writing and speech -- Text and ritual : the meaning of the media for the history of religion -- Officium memoriae : ritual as the medium of thought -- A life in quotation : Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory -- Egypt in Western memory.