Religion : material dynamics Religion: material dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories social formations and mobile circulations the book explores the making ordering and circulating of religious things. Split into three sections Part One revitalizes basic categories animism and sacred space and time by situating them in their material production and testing their analytical viability. Part Two examines religious formations as configurations of power that operate in material cultures and cultural economies and are most clearly shown in the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. Part Three explores the material dynamics of circulation through case studies of religious mobility change and diffusion as intimate as the body and as vast as the oceans. Each chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of religion from poetics to politics David Chidester provides an entry into the study of material religion that will be welcomed by students and specialists in religious studies anthropology and history. Provided by publisher Introduction : Material dynamics Animism Sacred Space Time Incongruity Culture Economy Colonialism Imperialism Apartheid Shamans Mobility Popular Touching Oceans Conclusion : Dynamic materiality