The Retrieved Altar Cross of the Luther Church Helsinki: Sacred Waste Transformed into a Heritagization Frame

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 tha...

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Subtitles:"Polin Issue: Religion - Memory and Innovation"
Main Author: Dahlbacka, Jakob 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2024
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-85
Further subjects:B Legitimizing frame
B Religious materiality
B Lutheranism
B Religious heritage
B Sacred waste
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Summary: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's engagement with the objects.
ISSN:1799-3121
Contains:Enthalten in: Approaching religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30664/ar.132089