Anna Yur’evna Seregina PhD in History, Leading researcher, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Leninsky prospekt, 32a, Moscow, Russia, 119334)
aseregina@mail.ru
Seregina A. Yu. Material aspects of the early Modern religious culture and popular history: a review of British exhibitions dedicated to the jubilee of the Reformation, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2019, vol. 8, pp. 412–426.
doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2019-00020
Language: Russian
The article presents an analysis of the impact of recent trends in the history of religions — studies of materiality of religious cultures and the role of the senses in shaping of lived religion — on public history projects in Britain, namely, those connected to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The article is focused on a virtual exhibition «Remembering the Reformation», which was a product of an interdisciplinary research project that united historians, historians of art, and philologists from the Universities of Cambridge and York. The author concludes that the virtual exhibition gives a viewer a good idea of the break of traditional religion in the 16th century England. Emergence of the material and sensual aspects of new religions cultures — Protestant and post-Reformation Catholic ones — are rather poorly represented, and this reflects early stages in researching of these topics.
Key words: exhibitions, religious culture, materiality, senses, Reformation jubilee, English Catholics
URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/en/seregina-2019-en/(откроется в новой вкладке)
