This book provides the first concise, comprehensive overview of all the key issues surrounding a hotly debated topic: the presentation and inclusion of religiou

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

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

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

Although museums and art galleries are often compared in role and function to shrines and temples, religion itself has mostly been ignored in museums, even thos