Alexandra Antohin explores the museum-ification of churches in Ethiopia, Russia and the
U.S. and how exhibitions and tours of religious significance establish active
reference points for new forms of public engagement. Antohin draws upon her
experience of these sites as well as contextualization theory to explore how
religious media are included in the interpretative space of ‘church-museums’.
She suggests that in Ethiopia, where tourism is still a new industry, multiple
subjectivities and modes of interpretation may emerge through the display and reception
of religious media in a public context.
