The Religious Plot in Museums or the Lack Thereof: The Case of Islamic Art Display

During the last decade, the curation of Islamic art and artifacts has been crossed by tensions at both the theoretical and practical level. Not only has it been continuously grappling with the Orientalist legacy, but it has also been operating in a global contemporaneity affected by multiple conflic...

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Main Author: Gonzalez, Valérie 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 4
Further subjects:B display philosophy
B museal phenomenology
B Islamic art scholarship
B Islamic museology
B Islamic material religion
B Postcoloniality
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