Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place

Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

RELIGION, VIOLENCE, MEMORY, AND PLACE
Edited by Oren Baruch Stier and J. Shawn Landres

"After reading these compelling essays, I could not help but feel buffeted by a tidal wave of haunted landscapes, irredeemable violence, and the toxic presence of murderous religious impulses and actions. . . . Every essay demonstrates the editors' articulate claim that memory is an essential dimension of religion—although an essential too often ignored in the discipline—and religion an essential dimension of memory." —from the Postscript by Edward T. Linenthal

Sites of violence often provoke conflicts over memorialization. These conflicts provide insight into the construction and use of memory as a means of achieving public recognition of past wrongs. In this groundbreaking collection, scholars of religious studies, sociology, history, and political science, as well as African, Caribbean, Jewish, and Native American studies, examine the religious memorialization of violent acts that are linked to particular sites. Supported by the essays gathered here, the editors argue that memory is essential to religion and, conversely, that religion is inherent in memory. Other books have considered memory and violence, or religion and place—this collection is the first to discuss the intersection of all four.

296 pages, 26 b&w photos, 1 map
0-253-34799-8, cloth $65.00
0-253-21864-0, paper $24.95

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