Things: religion and the question of materiality
Focusing on different kinds of things that matter for religion, including sacred artifacts, images, bodily fluids, sites, and electronic media, this volume offers a wide-ranging set of multidisciplinary studies that combine detailed analysis and critical reflection.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Fordham University Press
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Things. Religion and the Question of Materiality, edited by Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer] (2014) (Bräunlein, Peter J., 1956 -)
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| Series/Journal: | The future of the religious past
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Material popular culture
/ Materiality
/ Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Materialism - Religious aspects
B Electronic books B Religious articles B Conference program B Materialism Religious aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Focusing on different kinds of things that matter for religion, including sacred artifacts, images, bodily fluids, sites, and electronic media, this volume offers a wide-ranging set of multidisciplinary studies that combine detailed analysis and critical reflection. Things -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Things -- Introduction -- PART I Anxieties about Things -- The Modern Fear of Matter -- Dangerous Things -- Things That Matter -- PART I I Images and Incarnations -- From Stone to Flesh -- Rhetoric of the Heart -- Idolatry -- ''Has this thing appeared again tonight?'' -- Portraits That Matter -- PART I I I Sacred Artifacts -- Material Mobility Versus Concentric Cosmology in the Sukkah -- The Tasbirwol (Prayer Beads) under Attack -- Miniatures and Stones in the Spiritual Economy of the Virgin of ˜Urkupina in Bolivia -- PART I V Bodily Fluids -- Fluid Matters -- ''When you see blood, it brings truth'' -- A Pentecostal Passion Paradigm -- PART V Public Space -- The Structural Transformation of the Coffeehouse -- The Affective Power of the Face Veil -- ''There is a spirit in that image'' -- The FedEx Saints -- PART V I Digital Technologies -- Enchantment, Inc. -- Fulfilling the Sacred Potential of Technology -- In Their Own Image? -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0823239454 |