Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
IntroductionJ. Shawn Landres and Oren Baruch Stier
Part 1. The Place of Memory: Theoretical Perspectives
1. The Powers of PlaceRoger Friedland and Richard D. Hecht
2. Witnessing the Archive: In MourningWilliam Robert
3. Memory, Religion, and Conflict at Auschwitz: A ManifestoJonathan Webber
Part 2. Practicing Memory: Ritual Perspectives
4. Wounded Knee: Site of Resistance and RecoveryMichelene E. Pesantubbee
5. Walking the Way of the Cross: German Places, Church Traditions, and Holocaust MemoriesTania Oldenhage
6. Finding a Place Past Night: Armenian Genocidal Memory in DiasporaFlora A. Keshgegian
Part 3. The Spatial Ethics and Politics of Memory
7. Vehicles of Memory: The Enola Gay and the Streetcars of HiroshimaJames H. Foard
8. Religion, Memory, and Violence in RwandaTimothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa
9. In the Name of Mary: Sacred Space, Sacred Property, and Absolution of Past SinsJuan A. Herrero Brasas
10. Remembering Genocide: Gender Representation and the Objectification of Jewish Women at MajdanekJanet Liebman Jacobs
Part 4. Constructing Memory in the Contemporary World
11. Indigenous Traditions, Alien Abductions: Creolized and Globalized Memory in South AfricaDavid Chidester
12. Vodou, Water, and Exile: Symbolizing Spirit and Pain in Port-au-PrinceTerry Rey
13. The Stages of Memory at Ground ZeroJames E. Young
Postscript: A Grim Geography of RemembranceEdward T. Linenthal
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

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About the Author

Oren Baruch Stier is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at Florida International University. He is author of Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust.
J. Shawn Landres is director of research at Synagogue 3000 and a visiting research fellow at UCLA's Center for Jewish Studies. He is co-editor of After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences and Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion.

Reviews

"What I like about this book is its cross-disciplinary approach—scholars in religious studies, sociology, history, anthropology, and political science as well as in African, Caribbean, Jewish, and Native American studies, examine the religious memorialization of violent acts linked to those sites. . . I liked this book very much.Nov. 2008"—Contemporary Sociology