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Museality as a matrix of the production, reception, and circulation of knowledge concerning religion

Grieser, Alexandra and Hermann, Adrian and Triplett, Katja. (2011) Museality as a matrix of the production, reception, and circulation of knowledge concerning religion. Journal of Religion in Europe, vol. 4, no. 1. pp. 38-68.

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Abstract

Aesthetics of religion focuses on the sensual and representational aspects of religion and develops appropriate terminological tools. The idea of museality as an analytical and heuristic term for culture analysis is specified in the present paper by linking it to the history and dynamics of knowledge. Museums as institutions and cultural practice play a crucial role in the orders and politics of knowledge about religion in Europe. By means of different examples, museality is described as a specific and historically generated cultural pattern of perceiving, imagining, and knowing about religion in modernity. The examples focus on the production of different qualities of knowledge in exhibitions relating to religion, on transitions between religion and science in museums, and on popularisation as a mode of the circulation of knowledge about religion. These reflections on museality and knowledge dynamics could provide new potentials for inter-connective academic research, as well as for trans-disciplinary cooperation between the study of religion and museums.
Faculties and Departments:01 Faculty of Theology > Fachbereich Religionswissenschaft > Doppelprofessur Religionswissenschaft (Mohn)
04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Fakultär assoziierte Institutionen > Doppelprofessur Religionswissenschaft (Mohn)
UniBasel Contributors:Hermann, Adrian
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Brill
ISSN:1874-8910
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Last Modified:08 Jun 2012 06:54
Deposited On:08 Jun 2012 06:33

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