Holocaust Memory and Britain's Religious-Secular Landscape: Politics, Sacrality, and Diversity

ISBN-13: 9780367029463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 226 str.

David Tollerton

Opis

British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface between public Holocaust memory in contemporary Britain and the nation’s changing religious-secular landscape.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Part One: Holocaust Memory and Abrahamic communities; 2 Jewish Communities; 3 Muslim Communities; 4 (Post-)Christian Communities; Part Two: Holocaust Memory and the Sacred: Ritual, Shrine, and Pilgrimage; 5 Holocaust Memorial Day; 6 The Victoria Tower Gardens Memorial and Learning Centre; 7 ‘Lessons from Auschwitz; 8 Consequences of the Sacred; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography

O autorze

David Tollerton is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Contemporary Religion at the University of Exeter. He was recently awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his work on religious responses to the Holocaust. His first monograph, The Book of Job in Post-Holocaust Thought, was published in 2012.