Locating the Past / Discovering the Present - Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality (Paperback)

This collection examines the production and recreation of religious ideas and images in different times and locations, achieving a comparative perspective on the transmission of religious influences. The essayists look at contact and conflict between insiders and outsiders, centers and margins, Jews and Christians, Slavs and Greeks, and ancient ritual behaviors and modern television broadcasting, as part of the negotiation of new identity positions, relationships, and accommodations. The book combines the disciplines of literary studies, cultural studies, art history, religion, history, and critical theory, making it an important resource to a range of scholars as well as nonspecialists.