SWEDEN – Seminar: Elective affinities. Critical approach of religious heritage-making in the Mediterranean

Gothenburg, 5 June 2012

This workshop of the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies) focuses on the relationships between religion and heritage in the Mediterranean. It aims to study the entwining of these two phenomena and reveal the eventual particularities of religious heritage-making, as well as to discuss the conceptions of heritage embedded in the monotheistic religions, and re-examine the cultural matrix that religion and heritage share, redefine or negotiate through memory practices. Read more in English…