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标题：Archaeology of Holiness: Session Held at the 12th Nordic TAG Conference in Oulu, Finland, April 26–27, 2012
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作者：Ester Oras ; Tõnno Jonuks
期刊名称：Folklore : Electronic Journal of Folklore
印刷版ISSN：1406-0957
电子版ISSN：1406-0949
出版年度：2013
卷号：55
页码：7-10
出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：This special issue of the journal is dedicated to the archaeology of religion. It is based on papers presented at the session Archaeology of Holiness at the 12th Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting in Oulu in 2012.The session was initiated by the research project The Materiality of Religion: Religious Artefacts in Estonian Archaeological Collections, financed by the Es-tonian Research Foundation (ETF 8956) in 2010–2013. The main results and general conclusions of our project are discussed in this volume (see Jonuks et al. pp. 151–176). One of the aims of the project was to discuss the theoretical and methodological issues of the archaeology of religion. This led to a more general discussion about the terminology, including the meaning of this particular no-tion, which resulted in discussing the concept of 'holiness' in the archaeology of religion. Why namely holiness. Archaeology of religion is tightly connected with the concept of ritual. Our aim was to push the discussion further from and beyond this main focus and change the debate from religion and ritual to the numinous part of past religions. There are also other similar attempts made for using such alternative concepts (see, e.g., Rountree 2012). It is true that the further we step from the actual sources and physical remains of rituals in particular, the more speculative the interpretations will be. Nevertheless, we believe that it is important to bear in mind the mental background of religious practices and to speculate about those parts of religion that do not leave direct traces for archaeology. This led us to organising the session at the 12th Nordic TAG Conference, which resulted in seven interesting papers on the relation-ships between the concept of holiness and the archaeology of religion in the Baltic Sea area, five of which are published in this volume