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Paperback Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies Book

ISBN: 0804745234

ISBN13: 9780804745239

Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies

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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 phenomena as codes, religious rites and festivals, and canonical texts on the one hand, and in the Freudian...

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