What Is Not Sacred
Film, 2025
Duration; 00:26:00
What is Not Sacred is a documentary that stages a critical conversation around missionary collections. Filmed at Museum Haus Völker und Kulturen in the Steyler Missionare in St. Augustin, it brings together academics, theologians, and missionaries to trace the trajectories of objects caught between colonial history, religious devotion, and cultural heritage. The film interrogates the relationship between the church and the museum, institutions
often viewed as separate yet historically inseparable within the missionary enterprise. By allowing these domains to intersect, the documentary exposes the politics of sacredness and the ongoing negotiations of power, memory, and belonging.
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