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)
- The Dark Side of Gentility: Race and Masculine Becoming at 18th-century Harvard College (2018)
- Dwelling While Crossing: Migrant Mobility, Material Memory, and Religious Place-Making in the Sonoran Desert (2018)
- From gods to God: The Shifting Role of Hawaiian Ritual Locations from the Pre-Contact to Post-Contact Era in Maui, Hawai'i (2018)
- Hawaiian Mormons in the Utah Desert: The Negotiation of Identity at Iosepa (2018)
- Negotiating And Creating Tension And Change Through Religion, Mortuary Practices, and Burial Sites Within African-Descent And Moravian Communities In The Caribbean (2018)
- Pulpits and Bones: African-American Vistas of Action, Innovation, and Tradition (2018)
- Religion, Memory and Materiality: Exploring the Origins and Legacies of Sectarianism in the North of Ireland (2018)
- The Religious Landscape of Barbados Quakerism (2018)
- Resolving Individual and Community Identities though Spirituality and Ritual: Some Insights from Burial Practices Observed at the First African Baptist Church Cemetery Sites, Philadelphia (2018)
- Ritual and Resistance at Trents Cave, Barbados (2018)