Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

by Ernst van den Hemel (Editor), Oscar Salemink (Editor), Irene Stengs (Editor)

Overview

What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? What are —religious or secular—sources of expertise and authority that validate and regulate heritage sites, objects and practices? As cultural heritage becomes an increasingly popular and influential frame, these questions arise in diverse and challenging manners. The question who controls, manages, and frames religious heritage, and how, arises with particular urgency. Case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom present an analysis of the paradoxes and challenges that arise when religious sites are transformed into heritage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800736184
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	09/13/2022
Series:	Explorations in Heritage Studies , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Ernst van den Hemel is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Oscar Salemink is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Irene Stengs is a Professor by special appointment “Anthropology of Ritual and Popular Culture” Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a Senior Researcher at the Meertens Instituut/ Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Management of Religion, Sacralization of Heritage
Oscar Salemink, Irene Stengs, Ernst van den Hemel

Chapter 1. The Redundant Church: Heritage Management of the Religious-Sacred-Secular Nexus
Clare Haynes

Chapter 2. ‘A Sense of Presence’: The Significance of Spirituality in an English Heritage Regime
Ferdinand de Jong

Chapter 3. Churches as Places of Worship, Cultural Heritage and National Symbols: Centralism, Autonomy and the Hybrid Nature of Church-state Relations in Denmark
Ulla Kjær and Poul Grinder-Hansen

Chapter 4. World-Heritagization, Bureaucratization and Hybridization in Two Religious Heritage Sites in Denmark
Sofie Isager Ahl, Rasmus Rask Poulsen, Oscar Salemink

Chapter 5. Challenging or Confirming the National Sacred? Managing the Power Place at Wawel Hill in Kraków
Anna Niedźwiedź

Chapter 6. Playing the Game of Truth: The National Heritage Regime in Poland and Contemporary Paganism
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska

Chapter 7. Curating Culture and Religion: Lusotropicalism and the Management of Heritage in Portugal
Maria Cadeira da Silva and Clara Saraiva

Chapter 8. Between Catholic Nationalism and Interreligious Cosmopolitanism: Religious Heritage in Fátima and Mouraria, Portugal
Anna Fedele and José Mapril

Chapter 9. To Applaud or Not to Applaud? Bach’s Saint Matthew's Passion and Management of Sacrality in the Netherlands
Ernst van den Hemel

Chapter 10. Moral Management and Secularized Religious Heritage in the Netherlands: 
The Case of the Utrecht St Martin Celebrations
Welmoed Wagenaar

Afterword: Heritage as Management of Sacralities
Oscar Salemink