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Emplaced Belief is an innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. The Contributors adopt a wholistic approach to consider emplacement - a broad interrelation of objects, peoples, histories and places - in the analysis of relations between religion and heritage. To be 'emplaced' is to be situated, yet such positioning is the result of multiple conscious and unconscious forces, agencies, discourses, and epistemologies. The volume's title refers not only to physical locations of import, but also to the role of cultural practices and religious epistemologies in the establishment of religious heritage: the act of emplacement. That is, the religious, social, political and cultural practices that denote 'heritage' and the dynamics that revise, reinforce, or remove any such attribution.

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Author:   Jay Johnston ,  Marion Gibson ,  Jamie Hampson ,  Nicola Whyte
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   12
ISBN:  

9781836952930

ISBN 10:   1836952937
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   01 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Editors’ Introduction: Emplaced Belief: A Multivocal Introduction Jay Johnston, Marion Gibson, Jamie Hampson and Nicola Whyte Chapter 1. (Dis)placed Heritage: Memory, Museums, and Ecologies of Agency Mariska van der Velde and Kocku von Stuckrad Chapter 2. The Religious Dimensions of Britain’s New Holocaust Heritage David Tollerton Chapter 3. Visible Religion in a Museum Context Marie Vejrup Nielsen Chapter 4. Indigenous Rock Art Sites as a Locus of Emplaced Belief Jamie Hampson Chapter 5. The Geography of Mbira Music: The Mbira of Zimbabwe as a Forgotten Diplomat Ashton Sinamai Chapter 6. Social Remembrance, Social Forgetting and Commemoration: The Public History of Witch Trials in Divided Societies with Contested Pasts Andrew Sneddon Chapter 7. Locked but Not Forgotten: Secular Pilgrimage and the Love-Lock Ceri Houlbrooke Chapter 8. Hiking and Heritage: The Creation of American Pilgrimage Routes Giselle Bader Chapter 9. Encountering Remains of Charnel and Saints Inside Historic British Churches Ruth Nugent, Thomas J. Farrow, and Katherine Foster Chapter 10. Sacred Heritage, Spiritous Waters and the Subterranean Imagination in Early Modern Britain Nicola Whyte Chapter 11. Sacred Species and Biocultural Heritage: Systems of Value and Practice in Conservation Assessment and Education Jay Johnston Afterword Jay Johnston, Marion Gibson, Jamie Hampson and Nicola Whyte Index

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Jay Johnston FAHA is Honorary Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Recent publications include Amulets in Magical Practice (Cambridge Element 2024) andStag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics (Equinox 2021).

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