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Philipps-Universität Marburg
Abstract
The research network REDIM examines the interactions and relationships of religious
things in collections, exhibitions and museums. Our research focuses on the
shifting function and meaning of religious things, through the twin processes of
decontextualisation and recontextualisation in the museum setting. By using the
term religious ‘things’, we follow a broad understanding of Houtman and Meyer,
who see facets of material religion not only in images and objects, but also in
bodies, spaces and technologies.1 This approach is based on an understanding of
religion, in which material testimonies are part of communication systems
through which religious meanings and communities are constituted, instead of
reducing them solely to carriers of information and supplements to written sources.