Religion and material culture
Subtitle: the matter of belief
By: edited by David Morgan.
Contributors: Morgan, David, 1957-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780415481151; 9780415481168
Subjects: Religious life; Religion; Religions; Faith; Material culture -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The matter of belief? / by David Morgan; title: Theory; title: Body and mind : material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey / Jojada Verrips; title: Object theory : toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion / Gordon Lynch; title: Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions / David Morgan; title: Sensation; title: Tactility and transcendence : epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities / Mary Nooter Roberts; title: The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner : body, belief, and the practice of Chod / Laura Harrington; title: Things; title: Tempering the tyranny of the already : re-signification and the migration of images / Allen F. Roberts; title: Out of this world : the materiality of the beyond / Jeremy Biles; title: The material culture of Japanese domesticity / Inge Daniels; title: Spaces; title: Staging baroque worship in Brazil / Jens Baumgarten; title: Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education building / Gretchen T. Buggeln; title: Materializing ancestor spirits : name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea / Insoo Cho; title: Performance; title: Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens; title: Dressing the Kaba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor; title: Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell.