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Emplaced Belief

Heritage and Religion Reconsidered

Edited by Jay Johnston, Marion Gibson, Jamie Hampson and Nicola Whyte

276 pages, 7 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-293-0 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (January 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-294-7 eBook Not Yet Published


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Emplaced Belief is an innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. The Contributors adopt a wholistic approach to consider emplacement — a broad interrelation of objects, peoples, histories and places — in the analysis of relations between religion and heritage. To be ‘emplaced’ is to be situated, yet such positioning is the result of multiple conscious and unconscious forces, agencies, discourses, and epistemologies. The volume’s title refers not only to physical locations of import, but also to the role of cultural practices and religious epistemologies in the establishment of religious heritage: the act of emplacement. That is, the religious, social, political and cultural practices that denote ‘heritage’ and the dynamics that revise, reinforce, or remove any such attribution.

Jay Johnston FAHA is Honorary Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Recent publications include Amulets in Magical Practice (Cambridge Element 2024) andStag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics (Equinox 2021).

Marion Gibson is Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials (Simon and Schuster, 2023), and The Witches of St Osyth (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Jamie Hampson is an Associate Professor of Rock Art and Indigenous Heritage at the University of Exeter. Recent books include Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present and Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories Around the World.

Nicola Whyte is Associate Professor of landscape and history at the University of Exeter where she is co-Director of the Centre for Environmental Arts and Humanities.

Subject: Heritage StudiesAnthropology of ReligionHistory (General)Cultural Studies (General)


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