Sacred Heart Devotion

Memory, Body, Image, Text - Continuities and Discontinuities

Contributions by Paul Airiau Contributions by Sven Baier Contributions by Stefan Laube Contributions by JosĂ© Tolentino de Mendonça Contributions by David Morgan Contributions by Marcello Neri Contributions by Elke Pahud de Mortanges Contributions by Denis Pelletier Contributions by Francis Purwanto Contributions by Daniel Sidler Contributions by Nicolas Steeves, SJ Contributions by Damian Troxler Contributions by Antonio Viola Contributions by John van den Hengel Edited by Franziska Metzger Edited by Stefan TertĂ¼nte

Book cover: Sacred Heart Devotion

Extent: 330 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Erinnerungsräume / Spaces of Memory

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2020)

ISBN: 9783412521257

6.34 x 9.25 inches

Price: $113.00

In stock

In an innovative, pluri-disciplinary approach this volume focuses on how memory in Sacred Heart devotion is created, promulgated and transformed. The volume with contributions by historians, theologians, religious scientists and art historians links the dimension of memory to that of iconography, language, body and ritual practices and sheds light on adaptations, transfers, contestations and variations in a perspective of longue duree from the late Middle Ages to the present. The first part of the volume develops central axes of analysis, which are specifically investigated in the two following parts. The contributions of part two intertwine perspectives of cultural, social and art history focusing on the multi-layered creation, public presence and political usage, diversity and variations of Sacred Heart iconography and devotion in a long-term perspective. In-depth analyses centre on late medieval northern Italy, early modern France and 18th-century Switzerland (Eidgenossenschaft), on France from the 1950s to the 1980s, and on Indonesia in the 20th and 21st centuries. In a dynamic way, the third part combines systematic theological, philosophical and didactic reflexions on the Sacred Heart with a focus on imagination, embodiment, spirituality and memory.

  • Contributions by Paul Airiau
  • Contributions by Sven Baier
  • Contributions by Stefan Laube
  • Contributions by JosĂ© Tolentino de Mendonça
  • Contributions by David Morgan
  • Contributions by Marcello Neri
  • Contributions by Elke Pahud de Mortanges
  • Contributions by Denis Pelletier
  • Contributions by Francis Purwanto
  • Contributions by Daniel Sidler
  • Contributions by Nicolas Steeves, SJ
  • Contributions by Damian Troxler
  • Contributions by Antonio Viola
  • Contributions by John van den Hengel
  • Edited by Franziska Metzger
  • Edited by Stefan TertĂ¼nte