Christianity and the Limits of Materiality.
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Christianity and the Limits of Materiality -- Study of Christianity and the Protestant lens -- Luther and materiality -- Limits and boundary-work -- Three mode...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion Ser
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Material Culture
Religious aspects
Christianity
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| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Christianity and the Limits of Materiality -- Study of Christianity and the Protestant lens -- Luther and materiality -- Limits and boundary-work -- Three modes of boundary-work -- Notes -- References -- Part One: Doubting -- Chapter 1 Spirit Media and the Specter of the Fake -- Spirit media: Power in presence -- Pentecostal mechanisms of circuitry -- The specter of the fake -- Problems with matter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Organic Faith in Amazonia: De-indexification, Doubt, and Christian Corporeality1 -- The Yine and Christianity -- Faith as material relation and practice -- Epistemological ambiguity and the question of sincerity -- De-indexification of faith -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Things Not for Themselves: Idolatry and Consecration in Orthodox Ethiopia -- The orientation of things -- Idolatry: Beyond the dumb matter of the other -- Consecration: Symbolic form and holy power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part Two: Sufficing -- Chapter 4 The Bible in the Digital Age: Negotiating the Limits of "Bibleness" of Different Bible Media -- Commemorative practices: The Bible as repository for memories -- Semantic-hermeneutical practices: The Bible as access to God's Word -- Performative practices: The Bible as liturgical, ritual, and devotional object -- From parchment to paper to pixel-just a change in medium? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 The Plausibility of Immersion: Limits and Creativity in Materializing the Bible -- Kentucky's ark -- The material limits of conversion -- Materializing Noah -- Creativity: A conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Humanizing the Bible: Limits of Materiality in a Passion Play -- The backstage story. The church, the altar, the stage -- The Scripture, the script, and the costumes -- "Us" and "Them" -- Conclusion -- Materials -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 The Death and Rebirth of a Crucifix: Materiality and the Sacred in Andean Vernacular Catholicism -- General information about Huamantanga -- Mythical foundations of the ritual -- The pilgrimage -- The sacred route: A place of praesentia -- Penance and the weaving of a collective memory -- The recreation of the crucifix as a sacred object -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part Three: Unbinding -- Chapter 8 Proving the Inner Word: (De)materializing the Spirit in Radical Pietism1 -- Spirit as the ground -- (De)materializing the self through discipline -- Body as a site of meaning making -- How does one discern the Spirit? -- Invisible and visible things -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 The Return of the Unclean Spirit: Collapse and Relapse in the Baptist Rehab Ministry1 -- Rehab dogmatics and rehab ideologies -- Radical conversion as moral transformation -- Reasons to leave the rehab -- Three stories of relapse -- Relapse and collapse -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Mimesis and Mediation in the Semana Santa Processions of Granada1 -- Cultural and historical background of Andalusian processions -- Contemporary Semana Santa processions: Mimesis and mediation -- Conclusion: Motions caused by processions -- Notes -- References -- Afterword -- Self in/as materiality -- Ontological effects of media -- References -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1474291775 |