ABSTRACT Perhaps the most challenging heritage management issue since the beginning of the modern conservation movement relates to religious buildings and sites. This paper investigates approaches to the management of religious heritage buildings and sites in Osogbo, a multireligious Nigerian city, through the perspectives of various stakeholders. These stakeholders include the State, and its role in formal legislation and enforcement, the religious authorities as heritage owners and decision-makers, local communities’ understanding of heritage, and expert opinions about the properties. Drawing on physical observations, ethnographic assessment methods and secondary literature, the paper demonstrates how decisions taken by political leaders to construct a secularised national heritage have shaped the community’s cultural heritage perceptions, alienated from religious connotations. This selective use of the past gave heritage owners a free hand in decision-making about conservation, without taking into consideration historic and architectural/artistic values. It has also rendered expert judgment marginal.

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尼日利亚宗教遗产建筑物和场所的管理困境

摘要也许是自现代保护运动开始以来最具挑战性的遗产管理问题与宗教建筑和遗址有关。本文通过各种利益相关者的观点，研究了多宗教尼日利亚城市奥索博的宗教遗产建筑和遗址的管理方法。这些利益相关者包括国家及其在正式立法和执法中的作用，宗教当局作为遗产所有者和决策者，当地社区对遗产的理解以及有关遗产的专家意见。借助物理观察，人种学评估方法和辅助文献，本文证明了政治领导人为建设世俗的国家遗产而做出的决定如何塑造了社区对文化遗产的看法，脱离宗教内涵。对过去的这种有选择的使用使遗产所有者可以自由地做出有关保护的决策，而无需考虑历史和建筑/艺术价值。它还使专家的判断微不足道。