Interaction Between the Secular and the Religious: The Exhibition Latvia’s Century at the National History Museum of Latvia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F19%3A73598038" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/19:73598038 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://historicalsociology.cuni.cz/HS-43-version1-hs_2_2019_stasulane.pdf" target="_blank" >https://historicalsociology.cuni.cz/HS-43-version1-hs_2_2019_stasulane.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2019.16" target="_blank" >10.14712/23363525.2019.16</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Interaction Between the Secular and the Religious: The Exhibition Latvia’s Century at the National History Museum of Latvia

Original language description

The paper focuses on the interaction between the secular and the religious in the exhi-bition Latvia’s Century, dedicated to the centenary of the Republic of Latvia, with its narrative being developed by the National History Museum of Latvia. When analyzing the qualitative data obtained through collecting visual information, and undertaking face-to-face in-depth expert interviews and observations, the author explains how the curators have positioned religious objects chronologically in a specific social and political context by using storytelling as the exhi-bition’s primary interpretative strategy. Compared to the previous period of activity (1945–1990), when the museum was an institution of Soviet ideology, the National History Museum of Latvia has currently developed a new paradigm for the evaluation and interpretation of religion and religious objects. Alongside ethnicity, politics and language, the curators have identified religion as the most important element in Latvia’s formation process. Religion is interpreted as one of Lat-via’s constitutive elements in the exhibition, emphasizing that it was society’s major cohesive force in the past, influencing the development of national identity and defining the territorial borders of the Republic of Latvia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-11345S" target="_blank" >GA18-11345S: Atheism, Freethought and Secularization in Central and Eastern European Countries in the 20th and 21st Centuries</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Historicka Sociologie

ISSN

1804-0616

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

53-67

UT code for WoS article

000501575300004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077264915