Material Religion in Modern Britain [electronic resource] : The Spirit of Things /
Jones, Timothy Willem.editor.
Matthews-Jones, Lucinda.editor.
This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain. It makes a critical intervention in British studies of religion by bringing the analytical insights of material culture, to bear on religion in the British World.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Materiality and Religious History""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Part I: Material Sectarianism""; ""1. Objects of Transcendence: Scots Protestantism and an Anthropology of Things""; ""Introduction""; ""Context""; "" ?That?s Your Testimony!?""; ""?The Secrets are Kept Within?""; ""The Bible as a Material Object""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""
""2. The Material and Visual Culture of the Construction of Irish Catholic Identity: St. Colman?s Cathedral, Queenstown, County Cork""""Introduction""; ""Catholic Reform and Church Building""; ""St. Colman?s Cathedral, Queenstown, County Cork""; ""Devotional Images""; ""Ultramontanism""; ""The Sacred Heart""; ""Thaddeus McCarthy""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""3. Sanctifying the Street: Urban Space, Material Christianity, and the  G. F. Watts Mosaic in London,  1883 to the Present Day""; ""A History of the Mosaic""; ""A Transformative Object""
""An Object on the Street""""Sanctifying the Self""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Part II: Material Religion, Sex, and Gender""; ""4. Fashioning Church Interiors: The Importance of Female Amateur Designers""; ""Introduction""; ""Religion, Professionalism, and Material Culture""; ""Mary Miles, Stained Glass and Anglo?Catholic Imagery""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""5. Sounds Taken for Wonders: Revivalism and Religious Hybridity in the British Women?s Suffrage Movement""; ""?Onward Christian Soldiers?: The Sounds of Revivalist Politics""
""?Sounds Taken for Wonders?: Slipping Between Feminist and Religious Experience""""The ?Rules of Recognition?: Perception, Power and Identity""; ""Religious Hybridities and Heterodoxies in the Modern Age""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""6. Early Victorian Moral Anxiety  and the Queer Legacy of the  Eighteenth-Century Gothic Revival""; ""Introduction""; ""Nineteenth-century Moralism""; ""Eighteenth-century Queerness""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Part III: Material Religion in Postsecular Britain""
""7. Interfaith Home Decorating: An Exploration of Religiosity and Home Artifacts within British Interfaith Hybrid Coupledom""""Introduction""; ""Religious Artifacts and Belonging""; ""British Christmas Decorations and Belonging""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""8. Skin as Spiritual Script: Tibetan Buddhism, Tattoos, and the West""; ""Introduction""; ""What is a ?Tibetan? Tattoo?""; ""Tattooing: An Overview""; ""Tattooing in Tibet""; ""Tibet in the Western Imagination""; ""The Religious Landscape in Britain""; ""The Rules""; ""Informing the Lexicon""
""Scripting an Individual Narrative""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain. It makes a critical intervention in British studies of religion by bringing the analytical insights of material culture, to bear on religion in the British World.
Religion—History.
Religion and sociology.
Religions.
Physical anthropology.
History of Religion.
Sociology of Religion.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Comparative Religion.
Biological and Physical Anthropology.