Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums a

Critically examining the notion of 'world religions', Charles D. Orzech compares five purpose-built museums of world religions and their online extensions. Insp

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

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

This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to relig