Religion and cultural memory
Subtitle: ten studies
By: Jan Assmann ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.
Contributors: Livingstone, Rodney.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Memory -- Religious aspects; Memory -- Social aspects; Religion and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what is 'cultural memory'?; title: Invisible religion and cultural memory; title: Monotheism, memory, and trauma : reflections on Freud's book on Moses; title: Five stages on the road to the canon : tradition and written culture in ancient Israel and early Judaism; title: Remembering in order to belong : writing, memory, and identity; title: Cultural texts suspended between writing and speech; title: Text and ritual : the meaning of the media for the history of religion; title: Officium memoriae : ritual as the medium of thought; title: A life in quotation : Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory; title: Egypt in Western memory.