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Museum Collections as a Research Source for the Study of Religion: From the History of the State Museum of the History of Religion (St Petersburg, Russia)
In the very heart of St Petersburg, at 14 Pochtamtskaya Street, one finds a unique museum, the State Museum of the History of Religion (SMHR), sitting right next to the world-famous architectural masterpieces – the Admiralty and St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Today, it is the only museum in Russia – and...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Handling Religious Things. The Material and the Social in Museums (Band 06) |
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| Format: | Kapitel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2022
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the very heart of St Petersburg, at 14 Pochtamtskaya Street, one finds a unique
museum, the State Museum of the History of Religion (SMHR), sitting right next
to the world-famous architectural masterpieces – the Admiralty and St. Isaac’s
Cathedral. Today, it is the only museum in Russia – and one of the few in the
world – that is devoted solely to the universal phenomenon of religion and the
role it plays in human culture. The museum was founded in 1932 by Vladimir Bogoraz-
Tan, an outstanding Russian citizen and director of academic institutions.
He was a scholar of linguistics, ethnography, anthropology, and history of religion,
as well as a poet, author, journalist, teacher, and full member of the Academy of
Sciences of the USSR. For 85 years, the museum has been acting as a research
centre, studying religions of the past and present, in addition to playing a significant
role in the culture of the city of St Petersburg. |
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| Umfang: | 10 Seiten |
| DOI: | 10.17192/es2022.0087 |