In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like lang

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory. Th

Thus, religion may be perceived as a shared understanding with a collective memory that enables it to draw from the well of its past for nourishment in the incr

Scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the intersections of violence, memory, and sacred space

This book tackles the core problem of how painful historical memories between diverse religious communities continue to impact—even poison—present-day relat