Religion and cultural memory: ten studies
Jan Assmann ; translated by Rodney Livingstone
Religion and cultural memory: ten studies
Author
Jan Assmann ; translated by Rodney LivingstonePublisher
Stanford University PressEdition 1
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شناسنامه
Contractual title
Religion und kulturelles Gedachtnis .Title and Author
Religion and cultural memory: ten studies / Jan Assmann ; translated by Rodney LivingstonePublication Details
استنفورد : Stanford University Press، 2006مPhysical Description
x, 222 p.; 24 cm.Subject
Memory Religious aspectsMemory Social aspects
Religion and culture
series
(Cultural memory in the present؛ )Language
انگلیسیNotes
Includes bibliographical references.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