Australian Objects in the Religious Studies Collection at the University of Münster: The "Pater Worms Collection" as a Case of Inter-Religious Contact
The paper discusses the Australian artefacts in the collection of the Institute for the Study of Religion at the University of Münster. The collection was established in the 1950s with the intention to exemplify, for students of Catholic theology, the wide variety of material expressions developed b...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2023
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| Στο/Στη: |
Entangled Religions
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 14, Τεύχος: 1 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Sammlung Anton Antweiler
/ Λατρευτικό αντικείμενο
/ Αβορίγινες <μοτίβο>
/ Ερμηνεία
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | ΑΑ Θρησκειολογία AG Θρησκευτική ζωή, Υλική θρησκεία BT Θρησκείες της περιοχής του Νότιου Ειρηνικού KBB Γερμανόφωνος χώρος KBS Αυστραλία, Ωκεανία |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Missionary collections
B religious contact B Australian religions B Pallottine missionaries B religion and materiality |
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| Σύνοψη: | The paper discusses the Australian artefacts in the collection of the Institute for the Study of Religion at the University of Münster. The collection was established in the 1950s with the intention to exemplify, for students of Catholic theology, the wide variety of material expressions developed by different religious traditions in the world. The collection also highlights zones of missionary contact and their inclusion in theological thinking about non-Christian traditions. The Australian objects were given to the collection in the second half of the 1950s by the Pallottine missionary Ernest Worms. It is not the goal of this paper to attempt a thorough ethnological analysis of the objects; instead, we discuss how these objects from indigenous Australian cultures were included in a collection of religious artefacts owned by the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Münster and to what extent the founder of the collection, Anton Antweiler, considered these objects expressions of the religions and religious history of Australia. To this end, the correspondence between Worms and Antweiler has been analysed, particularly where Worms discusses these objects extensively from both a missionary perspective and from his point of view as a scholar researching Australian cultures. In addition, his German treatise on the religions of Australia (*Die Religionen der Südsee und Australiens*) was consulted. Based on these sources, Worms’ perception of the religions and cultures of Australia and how it informed his collecting activities can be reconstructed at least partially. At the same time, the paper attempts to direct the focus at the objects themselves as bearers of information. The material artefacts that were collected, described and finally sent to Münster to be exhibited tell their own stories about cultural and religious contact, in Australia as well as in Germany, where they were shown to students of Catholic Theology and are accessible for students and staff members until today. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.46586/er.14.2023.10309 |