Managing Sacralities Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

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.

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 (1958-2023) was 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ernst van Den Hemel (Editor), Oscar Salemink (Editor), Irene Stengs (Editor), Salemink Oscar (Editor), Stengs Irene (Editor)
• Authors: Ernst Van Den Salemink Hemel, Ernst Van Den Salemink Hemel Hemel
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 13.09.2022
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9781800736177
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-617-7
• Pages: 280
• Series: Explorations in Heritage Studies
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion & beliefs, Religion and beliefs, Anthropology of Religion, History (General)