{"product_id":"religion-and-cultural-memory-9780804745239","title":"Religion and Cultural Memory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a commanding view extending over five thousand years, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory, in ten brilliant essays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReligion and Cultural Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is not only an excellent book for scholars who want to develop a timely understanding of theoretical key concepts like memory, text, myth, and ritual, but is also a stimulation introduction for anyone interested in the genisis of our cultural self-understanding.\" —\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in Review\/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Preface\tiii  @toc2:Introduction: What is 'cultural memory'?\t0  1\tInvisible religion and cultural memory  2\tMonotheism, memory and trauma. Reflections on Freud's book on Moses\t000  3\tFive stages on the road to the canon. Tradition and written culture in Ancient Israel and early Judaism\t000  4\tRemembering in order to belong. Writing, memory and identity\t000  5\tCultural texts suspended between writing and speech\t000  6\tText and ritual. The meaning of the media for the history of religion\t000  7\tOfficium memoriae: ritual as the medium of thought\t000  8\tA life in quotation. Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory\t000  9\tEgypt in Western memory\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405552066903,"sku":"9780804745239","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804745239.jpg?v=1730492803","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-and-cultural-memory-9780804745239","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}