Religion and material culture : studying religion and religious elements on the basis of objects, architecture, and space : proceedings of an international conference held at the Centre for Bible and Cultural Memory (BiCuM), University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, May 6-8, 2011 / edited by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen and Jesper Tae Jensen.

The book gathers specialists from a variety of fields to explore the possibilities of the material perspective in the study of religion. Within a diachronic perspective, archaeologists, scholars of religion, theologians, and ancient historians focus on how the gradual invention of various forms of m...

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