"This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity, and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts, but as lived…mehr
"This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity, and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts, but as lived experience. Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism"--
Michiel Leezenberg, Anne-Marie Korte, and Martin van Bruinessen
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List of Illustrations xiii List of Credits xv Preface xvii Introduction: Practice Turns in the Study of Religion MICHIEL LEEZENBERG 1 I . RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY 1. Gesturing Toward Sacrifice: Aping the Scapegoat and Monkeying Around with the Lamb YVONNE SHERWOOD 47 2. Unpacking "Performance": Felicity Conditions, Efficacy, and Indexicals in Islamic Actions JOHN R. BOWEN 106 3. "Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame": How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate BRUNO LATOUR 119 4. Dorsal Monuments: Messiaen, Sellars, and Saint Francis SANDER VAN MAAS 141 II . EMBODIMENT AND MATERIALI TY 5. From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India WENDY DONIGER 173 6. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street JUDITH BUTLER 194 7. Divine Impersonations: Transgressive Gestures in Hindu Devotion ROKUS DE GROOT 215 8. Islamic Dress and Fashion: A Religious and a Sartorial Practice Revisited ANNELIES MOORS 235 9. On Spirit Writing: Materialities of Language and the Religious Work of Transduction WEBB KEANE 249 III . EVERYDAY RELIGION 10. The Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly Trajectories THOMAS A. TWEED 279 11. Rhythms of Roots: Identity Politics in Religious Dance Processions in Bolivia SANNE DERKS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, AND WILLY JANSEN 303 12. State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr UMUT AZAK 322 13. Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam SAMULI SCHIELKE 348 IV. TRANSGRESSIVE ACTS: HERESY AND BLASPHEMY 14. Eventual Blasphemies: Setting the Offensive Work of Art in Time S. BRENT PLATE 375 15. The Political Gesture of "Blasphemous" Art: Facing Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer ANNE-MARIE KORTE 391 16. On Silencing and Public Debates about Religiously Offensive Acts CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER 417 17. Offending Muslims: Provocation, Blasphemy, and Public Debate in the Netherlands MARTIJN DE KONING 445 V. VIOLENT RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES: SACRIFICE AND MARTYRDOM 18. Sacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Meditations from Sakalava Mythopraxis MICHAEL LAMBEK 475 19. The Mass and the Theater: Othello and Sacrifice REGINA M. SCHWARTZ 502 20. Martyrdom, Religion, and Nation in Kurdish Literature MARIWAN KANIE 524 21. Suicide Terrorism and the Modern Nation-State: Antiliberal Protest or Biopolitical Performance? MICHIEL LEEZENBERG 546 VI . SECULARISM AND POSTSECULARISM 22. Good Religion, Bad Religion: Beyond the Secularity-Religion and Secularity-Piety Binaries YOLANDE JANSEN 579 23. Human Rights, Muslim Communities, and the Unintentional Secularization of Canada ALI HASSAN ZAIDI 605 24. The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism RAJEEV BHARGAVA 623 List of Contributors 651 Index 657
List of Illustrations xiii List of Credits xv Preface xvii Introduction: Practice Turns in the Study of Religion MICHIEL LEEZENBERG 1 I . RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY 1. Gesturing Toward Sacrifice: Aping the Scapegoat and Monkeying Around with the Lamb YVONNE SHERWOOD 47 2. Unpacking "Performance": Felicity Conditions, Efficacy, and Indexicals in Islamic Actions JOHN R. BOWEN 106 3. "Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame": How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate BRUNO LATOUR 119 4. Dorsal Monuments: Messiaen, Sellars, and Saint Francis SANDER VAN MAAS 141 II . EMBODIMENT AND MATERIALI TY 5. From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India WENDY DONIGER 173 6. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street JUDITH BUTLER 194 7. Divine Impersonations: Transgressive Gestures in Hindu Devotion ROKUS DE GROOT 215 8. Islamic Dress and Fashion: A Religious and a Sartorial Practice Revisited ANNELIES MOORS 235 9. On Spirit Writing: Materialities of Language and the Religious Work of Transduction WEBB KEANE 249 III . EVERYDAY RELIGION 10. The Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly Trajectories THOMAS A. TWEED 279 11. Rhythms of Roots: Identity Politics in Religious Dance Processions in Bolivia SANNE DERKS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, AND WILLY JANSEN 303 12. State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr UMUT AZAK 322 13. Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam SAMULI SCHIELKE 348 IV. TRANSGRESSIVE ACTS: HERESY AND BLASPHEMY 14. Eventual Blasphemies: Setting the Offensive Work of Art in Time S. BRENT PLATE 375 15. The Political Gesture of "Blasphemous" Art: Facing Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer ANNE-MARIE KORTE 391 16. On Silencing and Public Debates about Religiously Offensive Acts CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER 417 17. Offending Muslims: Provocation, Blasphemy, and Public Debate in the Netherlands MARTIJN DE KONING 445 V. VIOLENT RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES: SACRIFICE AND MARTYRDOM 18. Sacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Meditations from Sakalava Mythopraxis MICHAEL LAMBEK 475 19. The Mass and the Theater: Othello and Sacrifice REGINA M. SCHWARTZ 502 20. Martyrdom, Religion, and Nation in Kurdish Literature MARIWAN KANIE 524 21. Suicide Terrorism and the Modern Nation-State: Antiliberal Protest or Biopolitical Performance? MICHIEL LEEZENBERG 546 VI . SECULARISM AND POSTSECULARISM 22. Good Religion, Bad Religion: Beyond the Secularity-Religion and Secularity-Piety Binaries YOLANDE JANSEN 579 23. Human Rights, Muslim Communities, and the Unintentional Secularization of Canada ALI HASSAN ZAIDI 605 24. The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism RAJEEV BHARGAVA 623 List of Contributors 651 Index 657
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