Religion and material culture : the matter of belief

Weitere Verfasser: Morgan, David, 1957-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: The matter of belief? / by David Morgan
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The material culture of Japanese domesticity / Inge Daniels
  • 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
  • Performance
  • Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens
  • Dressing the Kaba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor
  • Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell.