Religion and Cultural Memory

Ten Studies

By: Jan Assmann, Rodney Livingstone (Translator)

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In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive view of the life of the past in such surface phenomena as codes, religious rites and festivals, and canonical texts on the one hand, and in the Freudian psychodrama of repressing and resurrecting the past on the other. Whereas the current fad for oral history inevitably focuses on the actual memories of the last century or so, Assmann presents a commanding view of culture extending over five thousand years. He focuses on cultural memory from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Osage Indians down to recent controversies about memorializing the Holocaust in Germany and the role of memory in the current disputes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East and between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.

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"Religion and Cultural Memory is not only an excellent book for scholars who want to develop a timely understanding of theoretical key concepts like memory, text, myth, and ritual, but is also a stimulation introduction for anyone interested in the genisis of our cultural self-understanding." - Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques

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Introduction : what is "cultural memory"?	p. 1
Invisible religion and cultural memory	p. 31
Monotheism, memory, and trauma : reflections on Freud's book on Moses	p. 46
Five stages on the road to the canon : tradition and written culture in ancient Israel and early Judaism	p. 63
Remembering in order to belong : writing, memory, and identity	p. 81
Cultural texts suspended between writing and speech	p. 101
Text and ritual : the meaning of the media for the history of religion	p. 122
Officium Memoriae : ritual as the medium of thought	p. 139
A life in quotation : Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory	p. 155
Egypt in western memory	p. 178
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