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Emplaced Belief is an innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. The Contributors adopt a wholistic approach to consider emplacement — a broad interrelation of objects, peoples, histories and places — in the analysis of relations between religion and heritage. To be ‘emplaced’ is to be situated, yet such positioning is the result of multiple conscious and unconscious forces, agencies, discourses, and epistemologies. The volume’s title refers not only to physical locations of import, but also to the role of cultural practices and religious epistemologies in the establishment of religious heritage: the act of emplacement. That is, the religious, social, political and cultural practices that denote ‘heritage’ and the dynamics that revise, reinforce, or remove any such attribution.
Jay Johnston FAHA is Honorary Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Recent publications include Amulets in Magical Practice (Cambridge Element 2024) andStag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics (Equinox 2021).
List of Figures
Editors’ Introduction: Emplaced Belief: A Multivocal Introduction
Jay Johnston, Marion Gibson, Jamie Hampson and Nicola Whyte
Chapter 1. (Dis)placed Heritage: Memory, Museums, and Ecologies of Agency
Mariska van der Velde and Kocku von Stuckrad
Chapter 2. The Religious Dimensions of Britain’s New Holocaust Heritage
David Tollerton
Chapter 3. Visible Religion in a Museum Context
Marie Vejrup Nielsen
Chapter 4. Indigenous Rock Art Sites as a Locus of Emplaced Belief
Jamie Hampson
Chapter 5. The Geography of Mbira Music: The Mbira of Zimbabwe as a Forgotten Diplomat
Ashton Sinamai
Chapter 6. Social Remembrance, Social Forgetting and Commemoration: The Public History of Witch Trials in Divided Societies with Contested Pasts
Andrew Sneddon
Chapter 7. Locked but Not Forgotten: Secular Pilgrimage and the Love-Lock
Ceri Houlbrooke
Chapter 8. Hiking and Heritage: The Creation of American Pilgrimage Routes
Giselle Bader
Chapter 9. Encountering Remains of Charnel and Saints Inside Historic British Churches
Ruth Nugent, Thomas J. Farrow, and Katherine Foster
Chapter 10. Sacred Heritage, Spiritous Waters and the Subterranean Imagination in Early Modern Britain
Nicola Whyte
Chapter 11. Sacred Species and Biocultural Heritage: Systems of Value and Practice in Conservation Assessment and Education
Jay Johnston
Afterword
Jay Johnston, Marion Gibson, Jamie Hampson and Nicola Whyte
Index