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Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Religion and Cultural Memory Ten Studies - Cultural Memory in the Present
Author: Jan Assmann
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 phen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804745222
ISBN-10: 0804745226
Publication Date: 11/15/2005
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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