Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies by Jan Assmann, Rodney Livingstone

Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies

Jan Assmann, Rodney Livingstone

240 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion informative reflective medium-paced

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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 ...

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