Religion and cultural memory : ten studies : ten studies
Through a commanding view extending over five thousand years, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory, in ten brilliant essays.
Print Book, English, 2006
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2006
x, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
9780804745222, 9780804745239, 0804745226, 0804745234
1113128557
Introduction : what is 'cultural memory'?
Invisible religion and cultural memory
Monotheism, memory, and trauma : reflections on Freud's book on Moses
Five stages on the road to the canon : tradition and written culture in ancient Israel and early Judaism
Remembering in order to belong : writing, memory, and identity
Cultural texts suspended between writing and speech
Text and ritual : the meaning of the media for the history of religion
Officium memoriae : ritual as the medium of thought
A life in quotation : Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory
Egypt in Western memory
Includes bibliographical references