Religion and Material Culture The Matter of Belief

Name: Religion and Material Culture The Matter of Belief
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ISBN: 9780415481168

ISBN-10: 0415481163

ISBN-13: 9780415481168

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Morgan

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Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Preface


Introduction: the matter of belief




Theory



Body and mind: material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey




Object theory: toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion




Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions




Sensation



Tactility and transcendence: epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities




The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner? Body, belief, and the practice of chod




Things



Tempering"the tyranny of already": re-signification and the migration of images




Out of this world: the materiality of the beyond




"Dolls are scary": the locus of the spiritual in contemporary Japanese homes




Spaces



Staging Baroque worship in Brazil




Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education buildings




Materializing ancestor spirits: name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea




Performance



Clothing as embodied experience of belief




Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo: the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca




Performing statues



Works cited


Index