Religion and cultural memory : ten studies /

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Main Author: Assmann, Jan (Author)

Other Authors: Livingstone, Rodney.

Format: Book

Language: English
German

Published: Standford, California : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Series: Cultural memory in the present.

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Call Number: BL65 .M43 A8713 2006

Table of Contents:
  • 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.