Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies

by Jan Assmann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745234
• ISBN13: 9780804745239
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"