Religion and Memory: The Importance of Monuments in Preserving Historical Identity

by Jutta Kirsch

Two twentieth-century genocides set the context of this discussion of history and remembrance: Armenian Christians commemorate their victims from the 1915 Armenian Genocide in their memorial Tsitsernakaberd. And Yad Vashem is an international memorial site for the Jewish Shoah. In the process of coming to terms with the past and preserving the past, a transition to a comprehensive culture of remembrance followed. Memory as a cultural achievement provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3515130314
• ISBN13: 9783515130318
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.