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Religion and material culture : the matter of belief / edited by David Morgan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious life.
- Religion.
- Religions.
- Faith.
- Material culture--Religious aspects.
- Material culture.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 304 pages : illustrations, 1 map, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Summary:
- Materializing belief means taking a close look at what people do, how they feel, the objects they exchange and display, and the spaces in which they perform whether spontaneously or with scripted ceremony. Contributions to the volume examine religions around the world-from Korea and Brazil to North America, Europe, and Africa. Belief is explored in a wealth of contexts, including Tibetan Buddhism, the hajj, American suburbia and the world of dreams, visions and UFOs.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The matter of belief? / David Morgan
- pt. I. Theory. Body and mind : material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey / Jojada Verrips
- Object theory : toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion / Gordon Lynch
- Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions / David Morgan
- pt. II. Sensation. Tactility and transcendence : epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities / Mary Nooter Roberts
- The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner : body, belief, and the practice of chod / Laura Harrington
- pt. III. Things. Tempering "the tyranny of the already" : re-signification and the migration of images / Allen F. Roberts
- Out of this world : the materiality of the beyond / Jeremy Biles
- "Dolls are scary" : the locus of the spiritual in contemporary Japanese homes / Inge Daniels
- pt. IV. Spaces. Staging baroque worship in Brazil / Jens Baumgarten
- Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education building / Gretchen T. Buggeln
- Materializing ancestor spirits : name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea / Insoo Cho
- pt. V. Performance. Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens
- Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor
- Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415481151
- 0415481155
- 9780415481168
- 0415481163
- OCLC:
- 311757222
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