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The never ending story of Auður/Unnur djúpúðga Ketilsdóttir: cultural memory and religious identity Ghent University
Secularization and the Modern History of Funerary Culture in Europe : Conflict and Market Competition Around Death, Burial and Cremation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article connects the history of attitudes toward death and funerary practices in 19th- and 20th-century Europe to the ongoing discussion on secularization. It emphasizes how recent scholarship on the history of death ‐ following broader trends within religious studies ‐ has abandoned the standard modernization-narrative of secularization, and moved to view the issue through the prism of conflict and market competition. Depending on the ...
From high priest to patriarch : history and authority in the ecclesiastical history of Bar 'Ebroyo Ghent University
The Ecclesiastical History of Bar ‘Ebroyo has long been recognized as a crucial source for the history of the Eastern churches in the Mongol period but it has hardly been appreciated as a literary work on its own. Over the past decades, further study on Bar ‘Ebroyo has permitted to dismiss his undeserved label of unoriginal epistomist and to reassess the value of his work. This book seeks to inject that perspective into the study of Bar ‘Ebroyo ...
Netherlandish culture of the sixteenth century : urban perspectives Ghent University
The authors of this volume examine various fields of cultural discourse in the Netherlands of the sixteenth century: the political, commercial, religious, artistic, and sensory domains, and less obviously metaphysical properties like time and space. What defined the Low Countries were not its borders and its territories but its cities, and their economies dominated political relations. A dense network of large cities and small towns developed ...
Glorious Temples or Babylonic Whores: The Culture of Church Building in Stuart England through the Lens of Consecration Sermons KU Leuven
In Glorious Temples or Babylonic Whores, Anne-Françoise Morel offers an account of the intellectual and cultural history of places of worship in Stuart England. Official documents issued by the Church of England rarely addressed issues regarding the status, function, use, and design of churches; but consecration sermons turn time and again to the conditions and qualities befitting a place of worship in Post-Reformation England. Placing the ...
"Secularizing Funerary Culture in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: A Product of Political and Religious Controversy" Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Modern historiography of collective attitudes, practices, and conflicts surrounding death often focuses on the institutional history of cemeteries and nonreligious funerals in 19th-century France. Institutional and cultural discussions concerning funerals and cemeteries also divided nineteenth-century Belgium. This article explores emblematic civil burials and the secularization of cemeteries in major Belgian cities. The article distinguishes ...
From religious devotion to commercial ambition? Some marginal notes on the religious material culture of the Antwerp crafts in the 16th century University of Antwerp
Showcasing Adivasi culture and history: A comparative analysis of ‘tribal’ museums in Gumla and Ranchi KU Leuven
This article examines and compares how the Adivasi are represented in the two largest Tribal Museums of the Indian state of Jharkhand (one in Gumla, established in 2005 by a Belgian missionary, and the other in Ranchi, founded in 2008 by the Jharkhand Tribal Welfare Research Institute). It argues that both museums present a reductive interpretation of Adivasi culture and history. They characterize Adivasi as static remnants from a primitive ...