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This book reveals the history of the Vatican’s ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century. It focuses on two principal contributors: the academic, priest, and ‘Pope’s Curator’, Father Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD, and the missionary and linguist, Father Franz Kirschbaum, SVD. Their narratives are embedded in a unique set of comparisons between the ‘liberal humanist ideals’ that underpinned the 1851 Great Exhibition, mid-nineteenth-century German museology, and the 1925 Pontifical Missionary Exhibition. It relates to the period of high colonialism and rampant missionary activity worldwide. It unravels the complicated political and ideological stance taken by the Catholic Church and its place within the science/religion debates of its time. Establishing an essential link between the secular and catholic practices of collecting and curating ethnographic objects from non-Western traditions, the author proposes a broader framework for post-colonial approaches to scholarly studies of ethnographic collections, including those of the Catholic Church. This book appeals to students and scholars of anthropology, museum studies, history, art history, religion, politics, and cultural studies.

Art --- Culture --- Ethnology. --- Anthropology. --- Art History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Ethnography. --- History. --- Study and teaching. --- Archaeology and religion. --- Ethnology --- Museum techniques --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Catholic Church --- Museums.

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This volume contains fifteen essays in honor of L. Michael White, whose work has been influential in exploring the social histories of ancient Jews and Christians within the Graeco-Roman world. Following an introduction that highlights some of White's main scholarly contributions, the essays are grouped into three topic areas: Paul and his Legacy, Social Relations, and Material Culture. The essays are united by an interest in reconstructing the social worlds of ancient Jews and Christians through careful analysis of literary sources and material culture in their most precise ancient contexts.

Sociology, Biblical. --- Jews --- Christianity and culture --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Archaeology and religion. --- Social life and customs --- History --- Judaism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Paul, --- Rome --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs. --- Sociology, Biblical --- 281.2 --- 3 <082> --- 3 <082> Sociale wetenschappen: sociologie, politiek, economie, recht, onderwijs--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- Sociale wetenschappen: sociologie, politiek, economie, recht, onderwijs--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- 281.2 Apostolische Kerk. Judeo-christianisme:--tot einde 1ste eeuw --- Apostolische Kerk. Judeo-christianisme:--tot einde 1ste eeuw --- Christian sociology --- Religion and sociology --- Biblical teaching