Stordalen/Naguib (eds.): The Formative Past and the Formation of the Future
Collective Remembering and Identity Formation
Editors: Terje Stordalen & Saphinaz-Amal Naguib
Recent decades have seen a steady flow of scholarship on collective remembering and formation of shared identities. This volume contributes to this conversation in four ways.
First, it takes part in theoretical discussion on collective remembering by targeting specific theorems and exploring these in analyses of specific, historical source records. Secondly, essays in the volume reflect a rich underlying cross disciplinary discussion, which is certainly required for these complex phenomena. Thirdly, a recurring focus in the collection are instances of collective remembering in religious traditions and settings. Such instances, it is argued, are often “memory savvy” and thus provide interesting case studies. Finally, the volume attempts to understand the dynamics and interplay between past, present, and future in processes of collective remembering and identity formation.
Contents
Preface 7
Contributors 11
Introduction
Time, Media, Space: Perspectives on the Ecology of Collective Remembering
Terje Stordalen & Saphinaz-Amal Naguib 17
Remembering and Time
Impact and Resonance – Towards a Theory of Emotions in Cultural Memory
Aleida Assmann 41
Transformative Pasts, Transformations of the Future, and the Question of the Present
Helge Jordheim 71
From Christian Eschatology to Modern Utopia: On the Exhaustion of Utopian Energy
Otto Krogseth 93
Remembering and Media
Tradition, Writing, and Canonisation: Structural Changes of Cultural Memory
Jan Assmann 115
Canon and Canonical Commentary: Comparative Perspectives on Canonical Ecologies
Terje Stordalen 133
Viewing the World through National Narratives: The Case of Russian Narrative Templates
James V. Wertsch 161
Remembering Jerusalem in Medieval Scandinavia
Kristin B. Aavitsland 175
The Legitimate Heir: The Translation of the Temple in Twelfth-Century Rome
Eivor Oftestad 197
Remembering and Space
The Articulation of Cultural Memory and Heritage in Plural Societies
Saphinaz-Amal Naguib 221
Non-Formative and Transformative Memories in the Constantinian Reconstruction of Jerusalem
Marina Prusac 247
The Lead Books of Granada: Hybridity and Cultural Memory
Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati 277
Epilogue
The Trail of Roses: Time, Media, and Space in Memory Practices in Oslo after 22 July 2011
Terje Stordalen 315
Joint Bibliography 345
Index 377
List of illustrations 382
Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture (IFSK), Series B: 150
ISBN 978-82-7099-808-1, 382 pp., hardcover
Format: 17x24 cm, weight 1 kg, year of publication 2015, language: English
