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9781474255523 English 1474255523 Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and visual and material culture. Most museums throughout the world - whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums - include religious objects, and an increasing number are beginning to address religion as a major category of human identity. With rising museum attendance and the increasingly complex role of religion in social and geopolitical realities, this work of stewardship and interpretation is urgent and important. Religion in Museums is divided into six sections: museum buildings, reception, objects, collecting and research, interpretation of objects and exhibitions, and the representation of religion in different types of museums. Topics covered include repatriation, conservation, architectural design, exhibition, heritage, missionary collections, curation, collections and display, and the visitor's experience. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions, such as the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam , at the British Museum., Religion in Museums lies at the intersection of the growth of museum attendance and the increasing social and geopolitical complexity of religion. Most museums throughout the world ? whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums ? address religion, and the majority include religious objects. This is the first volume to take a broad survey of how museums address religion as well as religious objects, and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Museums provide spaces where people of different religious and secular backgrounds encounter the practices and beliefs of others, and museums are responding to this opportunity with a plethora of new exhibitions and activities, and scholars are researching the effects. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from north America and Europe, the volume explores the cultural work of museums from a cultural studies perspective, as well as the role of museums in the rapidly increasing interest from religious studies scholars in visual and material culture. The book is divided into six sections: museum buildings, visitors, objects, collecting and research, interpretation, and religion in different types of museum. Each part is introduced by an editor or leading scholar, who presents an overview of the field and developing trends. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions such as the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam , at the British Museum., This is the first volume to take a broad survey of how museums address religion as well as religious objects, and charts a course for future research and interpretation. The book lies at the intersection of the growth of museum attendance and the increasing social and geopolitical complexity of religion. Most museums throughout the world whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums include religious objects, and an increasing number are beginning to address religion. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia and Australia, the volume explores the work of museums from a cultural studies perspective, as well as the contribution of museums to the rapidly increasing interest from religious studies scholars in visual and material culture. "Religion in Museums" is divided into six sections: museum buildings, reception, objects, collecting and research, interpretation of objects and exhibitions, and representing religion in different types of museums. Topics covered include repatriation, conservation, museum architectural design, exhibition, heritage, missionary collections, curation, collections and display, and the visitor's experience. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions, such as the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as "Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam," at the British Museum."
9781474255523 English 1474255523 Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and visual and material culture. Most museums throughout the world - whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums - include religious objects, and an increasing number are beginning to address religion as a major category of human identity. With rising museum attendance and the increasingly complex role of religion in social and geopolitical realities, this work of stewardship and interpretation is urgent and important. Religion in Museums is divided into six sections: museum buildings, reception, objects, collecting and research, interpretation of objects and exhibitions, and the representation of religion in different types of museums. Topics covered include repatriation, conservation, architectural design, exhibition, heritage, missionary collections, curation, collections and display, and the visitor's experience. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions, such as the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam , at the British Museum., Religion in Museums lies at the intersection of the growth of museum attendance and the increasing social and geopolitical complexity of religion. Most museums throughout the world ? whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums ? address religion, and the majority include religious objects. This is the first volume to take a broad survey of how museums address religion as well as religious objects, and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Museums provide spaces where people of different religious and secular backgrounds encounter the practices and beliefs of others, and museums are responding to this opportunity with a plethora of new exhibitions and activities, and scholars are researching the effects. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from north America and Europe, the volume explores the cultural work of museums from a cultural studies perspective, as well as the role of museums in the rapidly increasing interest from religious studies scholars in visual and material culture. The book is divided into six sections: museum buildings, visitors, objects, collecting and research, interpretation, and religion in different types of museum. Each part is introduced by an editor or leading scholar, who presents an overview of the field and developing trends. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions such as the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam , at the British Museum., This is the first volume to take a broad survey of how museums address religion as well as religious objects, and charts a course for future research and interpretation. The book lies at the intersection of the growth of museum attendance and the increasing social and geopolitical complexity of religion. Most museums throughout the world whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums include religious objects, and an increasing number are beginning to address religion. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia and Australia, the volume explores the work of museums from a cultural studies perspective, as well as the contribution of museums to the rapidly increasing interest from religious studies scholars in visual and material culture. "Religion in Museums" is divided into six sections: museum buildings, reception, objects, collecting and research, interpretation of objects and exhibitions, and representing religion in different types of museums. Topics covered include repatriation, conservation, museum architectural design, exhibition, heritage, missionary collections, curation, collections and display, and the visitor's experience. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions, such as the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as "Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam," at the British Museum."