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Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums a
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In the past, museums often changed the meaning of icons or statues of deities from sacred to aesthetic, or used them to declare the superiority of Western socie
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We have long recognized that many objects in museums were originally on display in temples, shrines, or monasteries, and were religiously significant to the com
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Godly Things
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Although museums and art galleries are often compared in role and function to shrines and temples, religion itself has mostly been ignored in museums, even thos