RT Article
T1 Heritage and the sacred: introduction
JF Material religion
VO 9
IS 3
SP 274
OP 280
A1 Meyer, Birgit 1960-
A1 Witte, Marleen de
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/166701286X
AB Heritage formation involves some kind of sacralization, through which cultural forms are lifted up and set apart. But success is not guaranteed in the making of heritage, and the cultural forms that are singled out may well fail to persuade. Heritage formation is a complicated, contested political—aesthetic process that requires detailed scholarly explorations and comparative analysis. Which aesthetic practices are involved in profiling cultural forms as heritage? What are the politics of authentication that underpin the selection and framing of particular cultural forms? To which contestations does the sacralization of particular cultural forms—in particular, those derived from the sphere of religion—give rise? Which aesthetics of persuasion are invoked to render heritage sacred for its beholders? Calling attention to various facets of the relation between heritage and the sacred, this special issue offers detailed explorations of how form, style, and appearance seek to vest selected objects and performative practices with sacrality.
K1 Aesthetics
K1 Authentication
K1 heritage formation
K1 Sacralization
DO 10.2752/175183413X13730330868870