Linking approaches from memory studies, religious history, literary studies, and art history, the panel analyses on the one hand how narratives and iconographic codes in literature and art are appropriated and therein (radically) transformed by religious agents, while it explores on the other hand how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices are reimagined and used – in literature, art and material culture – up to radical deconstruction in religious and non-religious contexts. Both types of appropriation are conceptualized as practices of memory creating spaces of memory as narrative and visual spaces of imagination. The panel looks into four cases and aims to systematize mechanisms and functions of the respective memory practices and to present an innovative contribution to the analysis of the complex textures and modes of functioning of “religious memory”. David Morgan studies how material interpretations of religion are invoked and interrogated in and beyond religious contexts. Franziska Metzger investigates the narrative and iconographic memory of apocalypse in art and popular culture. Roland Innerhofer traces the usage of religious discourse in Austrian avant-garde literature and Dimiter Daphinoff analyses the pluri-fold appropriation of Byron by conservative Catholics. The panel is envisaged as initial exchange to launch a book project for the publication series Spaces of Memory. History – Literature – Art (eds. Dimiter Daphinoff/Franziska Metzger).Chair: Franziska Metzger (Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern) Speakers:David Morgan (Duke University), Image, Memory, and the Material Interpretation of ReligionFranziska Metzger (Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern), Textures of Memory in (Post)Apocalyptic Narratives and Iconography Roland Innerhofer (Universität Wien), “Increasing Mange”. Appropriation, Transformation and Deconstruction of Prayer and Religious Discourses in the Austrian Neo-Avant-GardeDimiter Daphinoff (Université de Fribourg), Byron’s Appropriation by Conservative Catholics in the 19th Century: The Case of ’The Prisoner of Chillon’