Overview

Though museums and art galleries are often compared in role and function to shrines or temples, religion itself is often largely ignored. However, contemporary appreciation of non-Western religions may change this as the cultural heritage of hitherto marginalized peoples is given more serious attention. The contributors to this volume explore how museums handle and present religious material. The first three chapters look, from different perspectives, at the principal themes and techniques involved; these are followed by a series of chapters looking at the treatment of religions from Methodism to Voudou in museums from Belfast to Taiwan.

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An exciting contribution to the analysis and interpretation of the will to collect religious artifacts; the historical techniques deployed in its exercise; and the ambiguous role of museums both as sites of colonial and imperial power and as helpful catalysts in the processes of cross-cultural conversation. <br>- Religious Studies Review, April 2001

"""One culture's exhibits are another's sacred objects that is a central theme of this volume of fourteen essays on the presentation and respresentation of the material culture of religions in museums. It makes an exciting contribution to the analysis and interpretation of the will to collect religious artifacts."" Religious Studies Review ""An exciting contribution to the analysis and interpretation of the will to collect religious artifacts; the historical techniques deployed in its exercise; and the ambiguous role of museums both as sites of colonial and imperial power and as helpful catalysts in the processes of cross-cultural conversation."" - Religious Studies Review, April 2001"

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Crispin Paine is the director of Gilbert White's House in Selborne

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