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Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions

Rieger, Anna‐Katharina

Journal of religious history, 2022-12, Vol.46 (4), p.726-758 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Melbourne: John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd

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  • Título:
    Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions
  • Autor: Rieger, Anna‐Katharina
  • Assuntos: Archaeology ; Economics ; Evidence ; Memory ; Politics ; Religion ; Time
  • É parte de: Journal of religious history, 2022-12, Vol.46 (4), p.726-758
  • Notas: I wish to thank Mattias Brand for his invitation to contribute to this dialogical special issue. My contribution concerns specific aspects of the material history of religion in Graeco‐Roman archaeology. *The notion of material history used here is that of Ann B. Stahl's “Material Histories,” in
    The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies
    ed. Daniel Hicks, Mary C. Beaudry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 150–172), including both history's basis in material sources and the history of such material culture itself. In the following article, I use the term “archaeology” as tantamount to material history. I am grateful for the opportunity to write this contribution during a fellowship at the University of Warsaw. Thanks are also due to my colleagues, especially at the Universities of Erfurt and Graz, for the continuous inspiring exchange on the topic of religion in history and archaeology. I am also indebted to the reviewer, who offered thorough and constructive criticism on my arguments and helped sharpen them. For proof‐reading the text and clarifying the argument I am grateful to Thomas Anessi.
  • Descrição: Archaeology as “material history” and the study of religions mutually reciprocate through their shared interest in the ability of people to establish memories and create imaginaries. Starting from this presupposition, the article evaluates the approaches used in archaeology to analyse the practices of past peoples. Because of the fragmented nature of the evidence, archaeological methods focus on detailed descriptions, chronologies and operationalising comparisons, all of which are also applicable to the study of religions. Beyond this, both employ theories from sociology as well as from economical, political, and cultural studies. In order to bring these tools to bear on the memory and the imaginary of (past) people, five analytical categories in which human activities can be discursively appropriated are distinguished: space, object, time, context, and practice. Memory and the imaginary converge in these categories, which can be investigated in both archaeology and the study of religions, making a reciprocal exchange between the disciplines possible. Archaeology can enrich the fields of religion and history and related societal discourses in a fruitful way by making clear similarities, differences, and changes in religions through their reflections in material culture, thus making religion more tangible, whereas archaeology benefits from the cross‐cultural and diachronic perspective present in the study of religions.
  • Editor: Melbourne: John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês
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