The Religious Heritage Complex
Legacy, Conservation, and Christianity
Editor(s): Cyril Isnart, Nathalie Cerezales 
The Religious Heritage Complex examines heritage-making of Christian-related legacies led by secular and clerical institutions. It argues that the relationship between public policies and spiritual practices is not as clear-cut as some might think. In fact, the authors show that religious activity has always combined care for the past with conscious practices of heritage-making, which they term “the religious heritage complex.”
The book considers the ways patrimony, religion, and identity interact in different Christian contexts worldwide and how religious objects and sites function as identity symbols. It focuses on heritage-making as a religious and material activity for the groups in charge of a sacred inheritance and considers heritage activities as one of the forms of spiritual renewal and transmission.
Case studies explore various Christian traditions located in Europe, the Americas, and Africa, investigating the longstanding and tightly-enmeshed connections that weave together religion and cultural heritage. Through comparing ecclesiastical and civil heritage institutions, this book allows us to consider the ambiguity of religious heritage.
Cyril Isnart and Nathalie Cerezales
The Church Building as a Practiced Duality of Religion and Heritage
Eva Löfgren & Ola Wetterberg
Iconography and religious heritage. The Russian Old Believers of Romania
Cristina Clopot
Cappadocia’s Ottoman-Greek-Orthodox heritage. The making, unmaking and remaking of a religious heritage complex
Aude Aylin de Tapia
The other face of secularization
Gaspard Saltako
Aesthetic views and believing views: the heritagisation process of the French Catholic churches confronted to tourism
Isabelle Saint-Martin
The Religious Heritage Complex in Italy: Faith, Tourism and the Church
Giovanna Rech
Between devotion and heritage. The Holy Week Pasos in Spain
Nathalie Cerezales
Managing ambivalence. Heritage, rituals and intimacy in Lisbon (Portugal)
Cyril Isnart
Cultural heritage as a religious strategy. Heritage-making of the Candomblé temples in Brazil
Mariana Ramos de Morais
Contemporary Vodun Memories of the Slave Trade Past in Southern Benin
Gaetano Ciarcia
Assembling Altars: Museum Displays and Visualizations of Religious Heritage in Mexico and the US
Ethan Sharp
About the library of the With Fathers in Tunis. Islam, Catholicism and Culture. Interview with Jean Fontaine
The contemporary configuration of the Santiago de Compostela cathedral cultural heritage. Interview with José Francisco Blanco Fandiño (foundation of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela)
The religious heritage complex in context. Concluding thoughts
Cyril Isnart and Nathalie Cerezales
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