Religion : Material Dynamics / David Chidester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chidester, David, Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Materialism--Religious aspects.

Materialism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. The book is divided into three sections: Part One revitalizes basic categories-animism and sacred, space and time-by situating them in their material production and testing their analytical viability. Part Two examines religious formations as configurations of power that operate in material cultures and cultural economies and are most clearly shown in the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. Part Three explores the material dynamics of circulation through case studies of religious mobility, change, and diffusion as intimate as the body and as vast as the oceans. Each chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of religion from poetics to politics, David Chidester provides an entry into the study of material religion that will be welcomed by students and specialists in religious studies, anthropology, and history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Material Dynamics

Part I: Categories

Introduction

1. Animism

2. Sacred

3. Space

4. Time

5. Incongruity

Part II: Formations

6. Culture

7. Economy

8. Colonialism

9. Imperialism

10. Apartheid

Part III: Circulations

11. Shamans

12. Mobility

13. Popular

14. Touching

15. Oceans

Conclusion: Dynamic Materiality

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520969933

0520969936

OCLC:

1011543290