| Includes bibliographical references.;Introduction : what is 'cultural memory'? -- Invisible religion and cultural memory -- Monotheism, memory, and trauma : reflections on Freud's book on Moses -- Five stages on the road to the canon : tradition and written culture in ancient Israel and early Judaism -- Remembering in order to belong : writing, memory, and identity -- Cultural texts suspended between writing and speech -- Text and ritual : the meaning of the media for the history of religion -- Officium memoriae : ritual as the medium of thought -- A life in quotation : Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory -- Egypt in Western memory.; |