The Retrieved Altar Cross of the Luther Church Helsinki: Sacred Waste Transformed into a Heritagization Frame
The topic of this article is religious materiality in a Finnish, Lutheran setting. Reflecting on the altar cross of the Luther Church Helsinki - and more specifically the elevated role the cross played in the re-opening of the church in 2016 - the article supports the argument of recent scholars tha...
| Subtitles: | "Polin Issue: Religion - Memory and Innovation" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Approaching religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-85 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Luther-kirkko (Helsinki)
/ Cross
/ Lutheranism
/ Materiality
/ Sacred object
/ Cultural heritage
/ History 1930-2016
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| IxTheo Classification: | CE Christian art CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KDD Protestant Church RA Practical theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Legitimizing frame
B Religious materiality B Lutheranism B Religious heritage B Sacred waste |
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| Summary: | The topic of this article is religious materiality in a Finnish, Lutheran setting. Reflecting on the altar cross of the Luther Church Helsinki - and more specifically the elevated role the cross played in the re-opening of the church in 2016 - the article supports the argument of recent scholars that Protestant engagement with materiality is not unambiguously negative but rather ambivalent. Using James Bielo's concept of "legitimizing frames" - i.e. boundaries or landmarks within which Protestants feel safe enough to deal with things and objects - the article suggests a so-called heritagization frame. Objects or things used within such a frame induce in people a sense of past events and experiences - preferably events in which God has made himself known in this world. This, in turn, enables people's engagement with the objects. |
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| ISSN: | 1799-3121 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Approaching religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30664/ar.132089 |