{"title":"Beyond museums: religion in other visitor attractions","authors":"C. Paine","doi":"10.4000/iss.1753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1753","url":null,"abstract":"Museums offer three very different things: public entertainment, public education and scholarly research. In all three areas museums have, over the past generation, transformed the ways they understand, use and present religion. This transformation in museums worldwide has forged new correspondences with other kinds of visitor attraction, like places of worship, libraries, pilgrimage centres, theme parks or zoos. The barriers that once separated museums from other institutions that welcome visitors have broken down, perhaps especially in the field of religion. In this short note I shall look briefly at some of the approaches museums have come to share with other attractions that present religion to visitors, and at some of the motives they share.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114667224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Every museum has a God, or God is in every museum?","authors":"Bruno Brulon Soares","doi":"10.4000/iss.1358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1358","url":null,"abstract":"The provocative hypothesis according to which museums are religious public spaces aims to threaten the unwavering secular status of these institutions in the West. In order to interrogate museum agency as secular, we must first ask a question: what is the religion behind every museum? The article proposes the decolonisation of the museum performance, understood as a magical act that in certain conditions produces religious effects. For this purpose, two French exhibitions presented by the Musee du quai Branly were analysed: the museum inaugural exhibition at the Pavillon des Session (2000), at the Louvre, and the short-term exhibition “Maori. Leurs tresors ont une âme”, presented in the museum’s current building from 4 October 2011 to 22 January 2012, both displaying collections of non-European religious objects.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114383183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"À qui incombe le patrimoine religieux québécois ?","authors":"Violette Loget, Y. Bergeron","doi":"10.4000/iss.1713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1713","url":null,"abstract":"Cette etude rend compte des rapports ambigus, oscillant de la cooperation a la concurrence, entre l’Eglise, l’Etat et les musees quebecois au regard de l’administration et de la protection du patrimoine materiel religieux, specifiquement en contexte d’alienation.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116266144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sacred in the prism of museology","authors":"François Mairesse","doi":"10.4000/iss.1286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1286","url":null,"abstract":"The articles gathered in this issue around the links between museums, museology and the sacred, were for the most part nourished by the discussions of the 41st symposium organized by ICOFOM around this theme in Tehran, from October 15 to 19, 2018 (Mairesse, 2018). These contributions seek to continue the often-passionate reflections and discussions initiated during these meetings. The theme of the sacred is of paramount importance for the museum world, both in terms of the objects they presen...","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115933898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preliminary Notes towards a Soteriological Analysis of Museums","authors":"Klas Grinell","doi":"10.4000/iss.1666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1666","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the potentials of the concept of soteriology in museology. It is claimed that modern museum politics and policy can be analyzed as a soteriology built around the idea that culture is a means to promote peace, and that it can offer salvation from the inhumane horrors of World War II. The UN in general, and UNESCO in particular, played key roles as soteriological institutions after WWII, akin to that of the modern nation-state in the Westphalian order after the so-called Wars of Religion of the 17th century. The soteriological element in the nation-state is the nation, in UNESCO it is culture and heritage. Building on this as a premise the text explores the museological potentials of the concept of soteriology.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116666581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collections Care Challenges and Innovations for Ephemeral Altar Assemblages","authors":"Caitlin Spangler-Bickell","doi":"10.4000/iss.1814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1814","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution evaluates the installation of (inter)active altar assemblages in museums from the underexamined perspective of collections care practice. Based on ethnographic research at the Fowler Museum at UCLA – which has been exhibiting altars for over two decades – this article investigates the details of constructing, maintaining, documenting and conserving altars. Firstly, it examines the Fowler’s innovative use of registration categories to contend with the fluid identities, status, and functions of individual altar components referred to as “TRs”, “Props”, and “Offerings”. Secondly, it offers a comparative analysis of curatorial and conservation documentation for three entire altars – one of which was also a contemporary artwork – in the 2008 exhibition Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas. This study reveals challenges of exhibiting ephemeral altar assemblages, provides examples of museological innovation to meet those challenges, and highlights the vulnerabilities of such innovations that museums should consider moving forward.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133668933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le sacré affleure-t-il aussi au musée ?1","authors":"Fanny Fouché","doi":"10.4000/iss.1570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1570","url":null,"abstract":"Le musee occidental procede par incorporation de fragments issus de cultures multiples qu’il integre dans la matrice de sa propre logique d’exposition. Cette appropriation constitue une confrontation entre les valeurs concurrentes dont les objets etaient porteurs dans les systemes dont ils etaient issus et celles structurant l’institution museale elle-meme. Cet article approche le retable comme un objet dont la situation initiale, a la frontiere avec la transcendance, permet de questionner les processus au cœur de la sacralisation. Les peregrinations du retable depuis l’espace ecclesial invitent a envisager le transfert de sacralite a l’œuvre dans son deplacement.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121313766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museum Performativity and the Agency of Sacred Objects","authors":"Matías González","doi":"10.4000/iss.1413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1413","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a critical revision of the Easter Island statue exhibit Hoa Hakananai’a at the British Museum, this paper discusses how indigenous sacred objects have been traditionally interpreted and displayed by Western universal museums. However, considering the influence of colonialism in the way these objects tend to be presented, it explores the potential of performativity in museums and its relevance for understanding the concept of agency in native ancestors’ representations. Therefore, it is argued that, through the integration of divergent non-Western ways of interpreting their collections, museums could promote participation, diversity and constructive connections with source communities and visitors alike, as contemporary museology has urged. Relating to similar cases, it also pays attention to the process of repatriation that Rapa Nui people have formally begun, with the support of the Chilean state as the constitution responsible for that territory. What is the role of museums in contemporary societies?","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"122 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129484993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do Museums Affect Sacredness? Three Suggested Models","authors":"H. Ström","doi":"10.4000/iss.1917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1917","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses what happens when religion in the shape of objects imbued with religious meaning is transformed into cultural heritage, suggesting three models to discuss its consequences for museums. The first model builds on the museum as a killing of previous identities, and the objects as provided with new identities as museum objects. A second model is the hybrid identity, where a museum object can possess several identities simultaneously, depending on the eyes of the beholder: sacredness, art object, or evidence of history. The third model is defined by the uses of objects. Distinguishing between cultual use and cultural use is crucial here. I argue that these different approaches to sacred objects in museum pose different museological challenges and possibilities, and also ascribes different agencies to museum staff as well as to the visitors.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125139161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sacred in museums, the museology of the sacred — the spirituality of indigenous people","authors":"M. X. Cury","doi":"10.4000/iss.1529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1529","url":null,"abstract":"Different biases can be adopted to discuss the sacred in museums. This article is about the spirituality of indigenous people and how it affects work at museums, particularly curatorship. The arguments put forth here are grounded in collaborative initiatives and in the discourse and knowledge of indigenous people in Brazil. We claim that museums are sacred places because the objects of indigenous people are sacred, and the sacred is part of the lives of indigenous people. The musealized objects of indigenous peoples carry with them the energies of those peoples’ ancestors, and evoke instances of communication with the spirits. It is a view that places the “enchanted” as museum curators, which requires new learning for new museum situations.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123956083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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