Indifferent things?
Subtitle: objects and images in Post-Reformation churches in the Baltic Sea Region
By: Krista Kodres, Merike Kurisoo, Ulrike Nürnberger (eds.).
Contributors: Karling, Sten, 1906-1987, honouree; Indifferent Things? Material and Ceremonial Church Practices in the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Baltic Sea Region (5th : 2017 : Tallinn)
Series: Edition Mare Balticum -- Band 3; Edition Mare Balticum -- Bd. 3.
Publisher: Michael Imhof Verlag
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Petersberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9783731910367
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism; Congresses; Church decoration and ornament; History; Reformation; Church buildings
Description: This third volume of the 'Edition Mare Balticum' is a collection of articles which address many aspects of material and ceremonial church practices that were re-considered during the process of the Lutheran Reformation ? the status of ?indifferent things? in the historical context of the Reformation as adiaphora/Mitteldinge ? as well as to inquire more generally into the existence and meaning of material objects in the evangelical sacral space. Of course, the problems concerning the adiaphora had their own dynamic in the Lutheran theological discussion, so the book describes how the process was reflected in different congregational practices, i.e. in ?lived religion?. The questions fit in with key ideas about the relationships of objects and people in a culture that had arisen after the ?performative turn? and ?material turn?: a wave that had lasted for some time in the humanities. Hence, this book focuses on the relationships and networks of relationships through which the meanings and effects of ?indifferent things? are expressed most clearly.
Notes: "Conference of the Böckler-Mare-Balticum-Foundation ... in the series of the "Fifth Conference in honour of Prof. Sten Karling (1906-1987)," "Indifferent Things? Material and Ceremonial Church Practices in the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Baltic Sea Region" ... Tallinn, 14-16 September 2017--Title page verson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-222).