Religious Communities, Religious Landscapes
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2018
Religion is not just a list of dos and don’ts, but an actively maintained community which exists in a particular place and time. Religious ideals are negotiated in local contexts and take their shape and meaning from interactions with people and environments. This session explores the interactions of place, environment, and religion, incorporating perspectives from social identity studies, landscape analyses, and the archaeology of religion. Papers explore the way religious groups and related social practices are created and maintained and the way religious ideals are put into action in a variety of contexts, often very different from that envisioned by religious leaders. Papers show that both small-scale material culture and large-scale landscapes have roles in the shaping of religions and religious groups.
Other Keywords
Religion •
Cave •
Ritual •
Churches •
Missions •
African-American •
Cemeteries •
Environmental Archaeology •
Landscape •
Identity
Temporal Keywords
Nineteenth Century •
Early 19th Century •
18th Century •
Contemporary •
18th-19th century •
1650-1750 •
Pre- to Post-Contact Period •
Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries •
17th to 20th centuries •
Turn of the Twentieth Century (late 1800s – early 1900s)
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-10 of 10)
- Documents (10)
Dwelling While Crossing: Migrant Mobility, Material Memory, and Religious Place-Making in the Sonoran Desert (2018)
Negotiating And Creating Tension And Change Through Religion, Mortuary Practices, and Burial Sites Within African-Descent And Moravian Communities In The Caribbean (2018)