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- Title
The Retrieved Altar Cross of the Luther Church Helsinki: Sacred Waste Transformed into a Heritagization Frame.
- Authors
DAHLBACKA, JAKOB
- Abstract
The topic of this article is religious materiality in a Finnish, Lutheran setting. Reflecting on the altar cross of the Luther Church Helsinki - and more specifically the elevated role the cross played in the re-opening of the church in 2016 - the article supports the argument of recent scholars that Protestant engagement with materiality is not unambiguously negative but rather ambivalent. Using James Bielo's concept of "legitimizing frames" - i.e. boundaries or landmarks within which Protestants feel safe enough to deal with things and objects - the article suggests a so-called heritagization frame. Objects or things used within such a frame induce in people a sense of past events and experiences - preferably events in which God has made himself known in this world. This, in turn, enables people'sengagement with the objects.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS studies; PROTESTANTISM; CHURCH history; HOLY Cross; LUTHERAN Church
- Publication
Approaching Religion, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
1799-3121
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30664/ar.132089