Narrating Religion through Museums

“Narrating Religion through Museums,” Narrating Religion, ed. Sarah Iles Johnston, MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbook, pp. 333–352, 2016.

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This article comes out of my course, Museums and Material Religion, in which we considered the significance of missionary provenance to so much of nineteenth and early-twentieth century museums collection, and how these collections are gaining new audiences in the twenty-first century who seek both to repatriate their “sacred objects” as well as to engage with museum collections in a ceremonial approach.