Enacting Remembrance: Turning Toward Memorializing September 11th
The memorial at the site of the former World Trade Center will open on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to help us commemorate, honor, educate, and mourn. Memorializing is an act that involves shared memory and collective grievingaiming also to restore severed communal bonds and dismantled cultural id...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and health |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2011]
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Journal of religion and health
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| Further subjects: | B
Memorializing
B Collective trauma B Memorials B Pilgrimage B National September 11 Memorial and Museum B 11 / 9 B Collective grieving B Mass catastrophic trauma B Mourning B Community of memory B Symbolic loss |
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| Summary: | The memorial at the site of the former World Trade Center will open on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to help us commemorate, honor, educate, and mourn. Memorializing is an act that involves shared memory and collective grievingaiming also to restore severed communal bonds and dismantled cultural ideals. As such, it is a form of cultural renewal that can transform traumatized mourners into an ethical community of memory. The active rituals of memorial activity utilize both inscribed and non-inscribed practices to help survivors of mass trauma manage fear, disorganization, and helplessness as well as sorrow. To bear witness to horrific events and the suffering they induced is a moral act. To do so together with people who may have seen the events of 9/11 from other perspectives, while also remembering one's own vision of what mattered, may mean learning to tolerate multiple conflicting narratives about the events' meanings. It is time to turn our attention from the memorial to memorializing. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-011-9517-1 |