Holy Bones and Relics in the Early Modern Christian Missions in Asia

Saviello, Alberto (2024). Holy Bones and Relics in the Early Modern Christian Missions in Asia [Performance or Exhibition]. In: Holy Bones and Relics in the Early Modern Christian Missions in Asia. University of Bern, Institute of Art History. 24.-25. April 2024

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Workshop of the SNSF-founded Project
Global Bones: Entangled Histories, Transfers and Translations in the Early Modern Age
University of Bern, April 24–25, 2024
In the last two decades, researchers started to pay greater attention to the significance of bodily relics for the globalized Christian mission of the early modern period. Case studies reveal the diversity of forms of relic veneration and its medial propagation in the various contact zones and suggest that a systematic study of the topic is a broad and fruitful field of research.
The workshop is dedicated to the role of venerated human remains for the Christian missions in early modern Asia. What functions did relics transferred from Europe, found, and newly created in Asia have for the missionary work and its legitimation? How were bodily remains treated and presented? What forms and functions did hagiographies, images, reliquaries, liturgical devices, architectural and ritual framings take in promoting the bodily remains and their veneration?
We are interested in the mediation of relics of old and new saints, in the role of bones and secondary relics in successful and failed canonization campaigns, and in the negotiations and conflicts that arose over relics between the religious and cultural traditions that came into contact in the respective territories. In addition, we would like to explore which methodological approaches from different disciplines of the humanities are helpful in the study of these phenomena.
During the one-and-a-half-day workshop the invited participants and members of GLOBO project staff will have the opportunity to present and discuss current research. Furthermore, we would like to use the meeting to exchange experiences regarding research in Asian and European institutions.

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