Religion and Material Culture

The Matter of Belief
Herausgeber: Morgan, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780415481151
• ISBN-10: 0415481155
• Artikelnr.: 27388443

Autorenporträt

David Morgan is Professor of Religion at Duke University, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He is the author of Visual Piety (1998), Protestants and Pictures (1999), The Sacred Gaze (2005), and The Lure of Images (2007) and is an editor of the journal Material Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'The Matter of Belief' (David Morgan) Part 1: Theory 1. Body
and Mind: Material for a Never-ending Intellectual Odyssey (Jojada Verrips)
2. Object Theory: Toward an Intersubjective, Mediated, and Dynamic Theory
of Religion (Gordon Lynch) 3. Materiality, Social Analysis, and the Study
of Religions (David Morgan) Part 2: Sensation 4. Tactility and
Transcendence: Epistemologies of Touch in African Arts and Spiritualities
(Mary Nooter Roberts) 5. The Feeling of Buddhahood, or Guess Who's Coming
to Dinner? Body, Belief and the Practice of Chod (Laura Harrington) Part 3:
Things 6. Tempering 'the Tyranny of the Already': Re-Signification and the
Migration of Images (Allen F. Roberts) 7. Out of This World: The
Materiality of the Beyond (Jeremy Biles) 8. The Material Culture of
Japanese Domesticity (Inge Daniels) Part 4: Spaces 9. Baroque Worship in
Brazil (Jens Baumgarten) 10. Form, Function, and Failure in Postwar
Protestant Christian Education Building (Gretchen T. Buggeln) 11.
Materializing Ancestor Spirits: Name Tablets, Portraits, and Tombs in Korea
(Insoo Cho) Part 5: Performance 12. Clothing as Embodied Experience of
Belief (Anna-Karina Hermkens) 13. Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo: The
Aesthetics of Pilgrimage to Mecca (Richard McGregor) 14. Performing Statues
(Jon P. Mitchell)