Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/ Rights

Blain, Jenny; Wallis, Robert J.

doi:10.1177/1359183504046893

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“…For example, Neo-Pagans often worship at places that have for them a historical meaning and a religious value. This is the case with Stonehenge and Medway Megalithis, heritage sites in England whose stones are attributed religious agency and sacred narratives by many Neo-Pagans (Blain and Wallis 2004;White 2016). Some Neo-Pagan practitioners organize travel to what they consider as religiously charged places, such as temples in Greece, to celebrate ancient myths (Bittarello 2006).…”

Section: Neo-pagan Authority and Online Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Materiality, Authority, and Digital Religion: The Case of a Neo-Pagan Forum

Evolvi

2020

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The study of material culture increasingly pays attention to digital religion, but there are certain aspects, such as religious authority, that remain under-researched. Some questions are still open for inquiry: What can a material approach contribute to the understanding of religious authority in digital venues? How can authority be materially displayed on the Internet? This article shows how religious authority is affected by material practices connected with digital media use through the qualitative analysis of a Neo-Pagan forum, The Celtic Connection. Neo-Pagans tend to hold a non-traditional notion of authority, accord great importance to material practices, and extensively use the Internet. The analysis of the forum suggests that Neo-Pagans use digital venues to look for informal sources of authority and strategies to embed materiality in online narratives. The article claims that it is important to develop new frameworks to analyze non-traditional authority figures and new definitions of media that include both physical objects and communication technologies.

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Section: Neo-pagan Authority and Online Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Materiality, Authority, and Digital Religion: The Case of a Neo-Pagan Forum

Evolvi

2020

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“…In 1987, Hadrian's Wall was inscribed on the list of internationally significant monuments under UNESCO cultural criteria ii, iii & iv (ICOMOS, 1987) In 2005, the WHS inscription was extended as the transnational 'Frontiers of the Roman Empire' to incorporate sections of the Roman frontier in Germany (Breeze and Jilek, 2008;WHC, 2005). However, boundaries and frontiers are by their nature divisive (Blain and Wallis, 2004) and their promotion in terms of universal heritage is consequently problematic (Creighton, 2007;generally, Labadi, 2007). As heritage, these monuments must be distanced and de-problematized before they can become universally shared (Fowler, 1992).…”

Section: Contemporary Materialitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, Hadrian's Wall (similar to other Roman monuments of Britain) remains curiously apolitical. Blain and Wallis (2004) define boundaries and frontiers as significant 'spaces, both physical and intellectual, which are never neutrally positioned, but are assertive, contested and dialogic' (p. 1). Although some scholars have addressed the resonance of the Wall for past and contemporary societies (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeologies of Landscape

Witcher

Tolia‐Kelly

Hingley

2010

Journal of Material Culture

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThis paper interrogates the materiality of Hadrian"s Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These trajectories have their own material circulations in both solid and narrative forms. Here, we consider materiality through the cultures inspired by/of the Wall. Through the formulation of an interdisciplinary methodology and praxis, we contribute to landscape studies generally and Romano-British frontier studies in particular. Firstly, we consider the genealogies of thought through which the Wall has been created, including its definition as a contested border and its use to inform discourses of nation and empire. Secondly, the material landscapes of the Wall are considered through phenomenon and encounter informed by contemporary debates in anthropology, archaeology and cultural geography. As part of the AHRC-funded Tales of the Frontier project (http://www.dur.ac.uk/roman.centre/hadrianswall/), we aim to provide an enriched account of the materialities of the Wall beyond traditional narratives generated by fieldwork and ancient historical texts.

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“…Stonehenge has been the most obvious focus of tension around the ownership and meaning of the ancient roots of Britain; the long sequence of problematic excavations, equinoctial riots, bad planning decisions, speculative interpretation and so forth have led it to be a highly troubled case study of where the past meets the present (Blain and Wallis 2007;Hill 2008;Wickstead 2014).…”

Section: Archaeology and Art: Further Encountersmentioning

confidence: 99%