Religion and cultural memory : ten studies

Religion and cultural memory : ten studies / Jan Assmann ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

Author/creator	Assmann, Jan
Other author/creator	Livingstone, Rodney.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Description	x, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Memory--Religious aspects. Memory--Social aspects. Religion and culture.

Uniform title	Religion und kulturelles Gedächtnis. English
Series	Cultural memory in the present Cultural memory in the present. ^A403800
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-222).
LCCN	2005024771
ISBN	0804745226 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0804745234 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	BL65.M43 A8713 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold