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Defining Religious Cultural Heritage in Europe

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As Hannah Arendt, following the French poet René Char said of our cultural heritage in globo, “Our inheritance was left to us by no testament”. The idea of inheritance as a valuable resource, which European societies preserve in order to pass it on to future generations, is central in the case of religious cultural heritage. However, even if the respective religious communities bequeath it from generation to generation under specific, in most cases written, canonical provisions that define its sacred content, its proper usage and its functional purposes, the religious cultural heritage “can be as much about forgetting as remembering the past” (Ashworth et al. 2007, p. 6). This becomes quite obvious in cases where sacred buildings, e.g. historic churches, are threatened with demolition and the local communities argue about “how much of their common memory resides, both directly and indirectly, in what they are about to lose” (Davie 2000, p. 163). A recent example in this respect could be found in the historic parish of St. Marguerite in Sainte Gemmes d’Andigné (France). The latter was scheduled for demolition in 2012 by the local authorities. According to the municipal council’s decision:

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  23. 23.

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  27. 27.

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  30. 30.

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  33. 33.

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  34. 34.

    Ibid., p. 104.

  35. 35.

    Ibid., p. 403.

  36. 36.

    The Declaration was adopted at the close of the Round Table of 71 Ministers of Culture on “Intangible Cultural Heritage, mirror of cultural diversity”, organized by UNESCO in Istanbul on 16 and 17 September 2002 (United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage). Full document available at: http://portal.unesco.org. Accessed on March 31, 2014.

  37. 37.

    Official Journal of the European Union, C 83, 30.3.2010.

  38. 38.

    Ibid., pp. 1212.

  39. 39.

    Official Journal L 74, 27.03.1993 pp. 749. One of the main purposes of the Directive is to enable Member States to secure the return to their territory of cultural objects which are classified as national treasures within the meaning of the Article 36 TFEU and have been removed from their territory in breach of the relevant national measures or of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3911/92 of December 9, 1992 on the export of cultural goods; cf. Odendahl K. (2005) Kulturgüterschutz: Entwicklung, Struktur und Dogmatik eines ebenenübergreifenden Normensystems [=Jus Publicum 140], Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, p. 327. It should be noted that the aforementioned Directive was amended by Directives 96/100/EC (Official Journal L 060, 01.03.1997 pp. 59–60) and 2001/38/EC (Official Journal L 187, 10.07.2001 pp. 434), while Regulation No 3911/92 was codified by the Council Regulation (EC) No 116/2009 of December 18, 2008 on the export of cultural goods (Official Journal L 39, 10.02.2009 pp. 1–7).

  40. 40.

    The official text of the above Report (dated 30.5.2013) is available online at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Accessed on March 31, 2014.

  41. 41.

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  42. 42.

    Council of Europe Treaty Series (CETS) No 121.

  43. 43.

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  44. 44.

    Council of Europe Treaty Series (CETS) No. 176.

  45. 45.

    Cf. De Beyer M. & Takke J. (2012) Guidelines on Ways of Dealing with Religious Objects, Utrecht: Museum Catharijneconvent, p. 39: “We refer to an ensemble when there is a certain cohesiveness between movable and immovable property of historical or art-historical significance. This refers not only to buildings with their interiors, but also to the connections between certain objects … Four types of ensembles are distinguished: cohesion arising from historical continuity: an ensemble determined by cohesiveness in continuity of ownership and use; cohesion arising from composition: an ensemble determined by unity of composition or by production in the same period, but not according to an integrated architectural plan; cohesion arising from a total, integrated design: an ensemble determined by the cohesion of an integrated architectural plan, also known as a Gesamtkunstwerk; cohesion arising from provenance: ensemble determined by the cohesiveness of one of the previous ensemble types. In this case, however, the elements of the ensemble are no longer in the original location”.

  46. 46.

    Data available online at: http://www.unesco.de/307.html. Accessed on March 31, 2014. Further information available at: http://www.kloster-maulbronn.de/. Accessed on March 31, 2014; cf. Anstett Janßen M. (ed.) (1999) Kloster Maulbronn: ein Kurzführer, Deutscher Kunstverlag.

  47. 47.

    Cf. Recommendation concerning the Safeguarding and Contemporary Role of Historic Areas (1976), according to which ‘historic areas’ afford down the ages the most tangible evidence of the wealth and diversity of “cultural, religious and social activities”. Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 506 f.

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  50. 50.

    Council of Europe, The Territorial Dimension Of Human Rights and Democracy, p. 38. Official document available online at: http://www.coe.int/. Accessed on March 31, 2014.

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    Shackley M. (2003) Managing Sacred Sites: Service Provision and Visitor Experience, London: Thomson Learning, p. 124.

  52. 52.

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  53. 53.

    Council Directive 92/43/EEC (of 21 May 1992) ‘on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora’. The aim of the Directive is to promote the maintenance of biodiversity, “taking account of economic, social, cultural and regional requirements” and to contribute “to the general objective of sustainable development”; see Official Journal 206, 22.7.1992, pp. 7–50.

  54. 54.

    See Tsivolas Th. (2013) The legal protection of religious cultural goods [in Greek], Athens - Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas Publications, p. 264 f.

  55. 55.

    Recommendation No. R (95) 9 ‘on the Integrated Conservation of Cultural Landscape Areas as Part of Landscape Policies’, Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on September 11, 1995, at the 543rd meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies. Official document available online at: https://wcd.coe.int. Accessed on March 31, 2014.

  56. 56.

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  57. 57.

    Wild R. & McLeod C. (eds.) (2008) Sacred Natural Sites: Guidelines for Protected Area Managers, Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, p. 5.

  58. 58.

    Ibid.

  59. 59.

    Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 103 f.

  60. 60.

    Ibid., p. 135 f.

  61. 61.

    Ibid., p. 297 f.

  62. 62.

    Ibid., p. 326 f.

  63. 63.

    Cf. ibid., p. 104.

  64. 64.

    According to the terminology adopted by the UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (Rome, 1995). See the official document of the relevant Convention online at: http://www.unidroit.org/english/conventions/1995culturalproperty/main.htm. Cf. the definition provided by the UNESCO Recommendation for the Protection of Movable Cultural Property: “movable cultural property shall be taken to mean all movable objects which are the expression and testimony of human creation or of the evolution of nature and which are of archaeological, historical, artistic, scientific or technical value and interest” in: Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 549 f.

  65. 65.

    Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 136.

  66. 66.

    Ibid., pp. 445.

  67. 67.

    Ibid., p. 403.

  68. 68.

    Ibid., p. 137.

  69. 69.

    The official text of the Operational Guidelines, which are periodically revised (last revision in July 2013), is available online at: http://whc.unesco.org/en/guidelines. Accessed on March 31, 2014.

  70. 70.

    Cf. Burton L. (2002) Worship and wilderness: Culture, religion, and law in public lands management, University of Wisconsin Press, p. 28 f.

  71. 71.

    Wild R. & McLeod C., op. cit., p. 5.

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    Fairchild Ruggles D. & Sihna A. (2009) Preserving the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India, in: Fairchild Ruggles D. & Silvermann H. (eds.) Intangible Heritage Embodied, Heidelberg - London - New York: Springer, pp. 967.

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  74. 74.

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    Papayannis T. (2008) Characteristic Mt. Athos landscapes: the case of the Holy Simonopetra Monastery, in: Μallarach L. (ed.) Protected Landscapes and Cultural and Spiritual Values [=Values of Protected Landscapes and Seascapes 2], Heidelberg: Kasparek Verlag, pp. 51–63 (p. 54).

  76. 76.

    Cf. Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 298.

  77. 77.

    See de Coppet D. (ed.) (1992) Understanding rituals, London: Routledge; La Fontaine J.(ed.) (2004) The interpretation of ritual, London: Routledge; Bell C. (2009) Ritual. Perspectives and Dimensions, Oxford University.

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    Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 605 f. For the religious and secular origins of the notion of ‘folklore’ see Propp V. (1984) Theory and History of Folkore, Liberman A. (ed.) [=Theory and History of Literature 5], Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, p. 11 f.

  79. 79.

    Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 707 f.

  80. 80.

    Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 326 f.

  81. 81.

    Cf. Thibaut J. (1899) Etude de Musique byzantine, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 12247.

  82. 82.

    Wellesz E. (1961) A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography (second edition), Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. viii.

  83. 83.

    According to Art. 4 of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: “Cultural content” refers to the symbolic meaning, artistic dimension and cultural values that originate from or express cultural identities (Standard-setting in UNESCO, op. cit., p. 330).

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