The Future of Religious Heritage

Ferdinand de Jong is an anthropologist (PhD, University of Amsterdam). His publications include Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Senegal (Indiana UP, 2007) and Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa (co-edited with Michael Rowlands, Routledge, 2016). His most recent monograph is Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal (Cambridge University Press, 2022). José Mapril holds a PhD in Anthropology from ICS, University of Lisbon, with a thesis on transnationalism and religion among Bangladeshis in Portugal. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a senior researcher at CRIA NOVA. Between 2018 and 2021, José was the coordinator of the executive committee of CRIA.

Introduction: Temporalities of Renewal in Religious Heritage, Part I: Futures of Places of Worship, 1. A Museum Made Mosque: Postsecularism and the Case of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, 2. Re-Living Religion: Ritual and Heritage in English Cathedrals, 3. Drawing Futures in Lisbon: Diversity, Heritage, and Religion, 4. Reconciliation and Its (Mis)uses: Rebuilding the Garrison Church in Potsdam, 5. ‘A House of Power’: Producing Pentecostal Heritage in Southwest Nigeria, 6. Traces of the Sacred: Loss, Hope, and Potentiality in Religious Heritage in England, Part II: Choreographies of Futures, 7. In and Out of Sync: Temporality and Togetherness in the Church of England, 8. Religious Heritage Claims to Eternity: The Salesian Passion Play in Kraków, 9. Pre-enacting The Passion: Restaging Religious Heritage, Producing Unruly Audiences, 10. A Playful Frame for Remembrance and Renewal: Staging Hanukkah in Post-War Theatre Productions of The Diary of Anne Frank