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Author:   Bruce M. Sullivan (Northern Arizona University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.313kg
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9781472590800

ISBN 10:   1472590805
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   22 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of illustrations Introduction, Bruce M. Sullivan (Northern Arizona University, USA) Part 1: Exhibiting Hindu and Sikh Religious Objects in Museums 1. What Do Indian Images Really Want? A Biographical Approach, Richard H. Davis (Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Bard College, USA) 2. Under the Gaze of Kali: Exhibitionism in the Kalighat Painting Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Deepak Sarma (Professor of Religious Studies, Case Western Reserve University, USA) 3. Reconsecrating the Icons: The New Phenomenon of Yoga in Museums, Bruce M. Sullivan (Professor, Comparative Study of Religions & Asian Studies, Northern Arizona University, USA) 4. Sikh Museuming, Anne Murphy (Associate Professor in Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies, Dept. of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada) Part 2: Exhibiting Buddhist Religious Objects in Museums 5. Planning the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Gallery of Buddhist Sculpture 2009-2014, John Clarke (Curator of South and South East Asian Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK) 6. Entering the Virtual Mandala: Transformative Environments in Hybrid Spaces, Jeff Durham (Assistant Curator of Himalayan Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA) 7. Discovery and Display: Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denise Patry Leidy (Curator of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA) 8. Mapping Cultures, Digital Exhibitions, Learning Networks: The Creative Collaborations at Austin College and the Crow Collection of Asian Art, Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Austin College, USA) Part 3: Religions, Museums, Memory 9. Curating Asian Religious Objects in the Exhibition Sacred Word and Image: Five World Religions, Janet Baker (Curator of Asian Art, Phoenix Art Museum, USA) 10. World Religions Museums: Dialogue, Domestication, and the Sacred Gaze, Charles D. Orzech (Reader in Religion, Conflict & Transition, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK) 11. Detritus to Treasure: Memory, Metonymy, and the Museum, Michael Willis (Curator of the Early South Asian and Himalayan Collections, The British Museum, UK) Bibliography Index

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The essays themselves are fascinating, not least because they bring together both museum curators and religious studies scholars thinking aloud, hard, and in parallel, about the 'material' and 'religious' dimensions of the objects they are exhibiting. Art and Christianity This timely volume is a valuable set of essays exploring the relationship between religious material culture and the politics of display in museums. The essays deal primarily with South and East Asian objects, each delicately balancing theory with ethnography and history. -- Frank J. Korom, Professor of Religion & Anthropology, Boston University, USA This book captures some of the many journeys made, and shifting roles played, by sacred objects when they are taken from their temples and shrines. They can become imperial trophies, scientific specimens, bland conscripts in multicultural narratives, stereotypes paraded to boost museum visits, respected ambassadors representing faiths, traditions or groups, commodities in the art market, and - perhaps - return to being intermediaries between the material and the spiritual. This book offers not a single argument, but a judicious mixture of appreciation and critique, scepticism and enthusiasm, history and philosophy. Beyond its clear relevance to religious and museum studies, it casts interesting light on one of the most important issues of our time, the public understanding of religious difference - and the role of museums as civic spaces in which difference can be explored. -- Mark O'Neill, Director of Policy & Research, Glasgow Life, and former Director of Glasgow Museums, UK

The essays themselves are fascinating, not least because they bring together both museum curators and religious studies scholars thinking aloud, hard, and in parallel, about the 'material' and 'religious' dimensions of the objects they are exhibiting. * Art and Christianity * This timely volume is a valuable set of essays exploring the relationship between religious material culture and the politics of display in museums. The essays deal primarily with South and East Asian objects, each delicately balancing theory with ethnography and history. -- Frank J. Korom, Professor of Religion & Anthropology, Boston University, USA This book captures some of the many journeys made, and shifting roles played, by sacred objects when they are taken from their temples and shrines. They can become imperial trophies, scientific specimens, bland conscripts in multicultural narratives, stereotypes paraded to boost museum visits, respected ambassadors representing faiths, traditions or groups, commodities in the art market, and – perhaps – return to being intermediaries between the material and the spiritual. This book offers not a single argument, but a judicious mixture of appreciation and critique, scepticism and enthusiasm, history and philosophy. Beyond its clear relevance to religious and museum studies, it casts interesting light on one of the most important issues of our time, the public understanding of religious difference – and the role of museums as civic spaces in which difference can be explored. -- Mark O'Neill, Director of Policy & Research, Glasgow Life, and former Director of Glasgow Museums, UK

The essays themselves are fascinating, not least because they bring together both museum curators and religious studies scholars thinking aloud, hard, and in parallel, about the 'material' and 'religious' dimensions of the objects they are exhibiting. * Art and Christianity * This timely volume is a valuable set of essays exploring the relationship between religious material culture and the politics of display in museums. The essays deal primarily with South and East Asian objects, each delicately balancing theory with ethnography and history. -- Frank J. Korom, Professor of Religion & Anthropology, Boston University, USA This book captures some of the many journeys made, and shifting roles played, by sacred objects when they are taken from their temples and shrines. They can become imperial trophies, scientific specimens, bland conscripts in multicultural narratives, stereotypes paraded to boost museum visits, respected ambassadors representing faiths, traditions or groups, commodities in the art market, and - perhaps - return to being intermediaries between the material and the spiritual. This book offers not a single argument, but a judicious mixture of appreciation and critique, scepticism and enthusiasm, history and philosophy. Beyond its clear relevance to religious and museum studies, it casts interesting light on one of the most important issues of our time, the public understanding of religious difference - and the role of museums as civic spaces in which difference can be explored. -- Mark O'Neill, Director of Policy & Research, Glasgow Life, and former Director of Glasgow Museums, UK

This timely volume is a valuable set of essays exploring the relationship between religious material culture and the politics of display in museums. The essays deal primarily with South and East Asian objects, each delicately balancing theory with ethnography and history. -- Frank J. Korom, Professor of Religion & Anthropology, Boston University, USA This book captures some of the many journeys made, and shifting roles played by, sacred objects when they are taken from their temples and shrines. They can become imperial trophies, scientific specimens, bland conscripts in multicultural narratives, stereotypes paraded to boost museum visits, respected ambassadors representing faiths, traditions or groups, commodities in the art market, and - perhaps - return to being intermediaries between the material and the spiritual. This book offers not a single argument, but a judicious mixture of appreciation and critique, scepticism and enthusiasm, history and philosophy. Beyond its clear relevance to religious and museum studies, it casts interesting light on one of the most important issues of our time, the public understanding of religious difference - and the role of museums as civic spaces in which difference can be explored. -- Mark O'Neill, Director of Policy & Research, Glasgow Life, and former Director of Glasgow Museums, UK

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Bruce M. Sullivan is Professor of Comparative Study of Religions and Asian Studies at Northern Arizona University, USA.

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