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Religion and material culture : the matter of belief / edited by David Morgan.

Contributor(s): Morgan, David, 1957-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, England ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: xiv, 304 pages : illustrations, 1 map, plans ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415481168 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415481163 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Religious life | Religion | Religions | Faith | Material culture -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 202/.2 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the matter of belief? / David Morgan -- Body and mind : material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey / Jojada Verrips -- Object theory : toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion / Gordon Lynch -- Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions / David Morgan -- Tactility and transcendence : epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities / Mary Nooter Roberts -- The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner : body, belief, and the practice of chod / Laura Harrington -- Tempering "the tyranny of the already" : re-signification and the migration of images / Allen F. Roberts -- Out of this world : the materiality of the beyond / Jeremy Biles -- "Dolls are scary" : the locus of the spiritual in contemporary Japanese homes / Inge Daniels -- Staging baroque worship in Brazil / Jens Baumgarten -- Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education building / Gretchen T. Buggeln -- Materializing ancestor spirits : name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea / Insoo Cho -- Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor -- Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the matter of belief? / David Morgan -- Body and mind : material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey / Jojada Verrips -- Object theory : toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion / Gordon Lynch -- Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions / David Morgan -- Tactility and transcendence : epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities / Mary Nooter Roberts -- The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner : body, belief, and the practice of chod / Laura Harrington -- Tempering "the tyranny of the already" : re-signification and the migration of images / Allen F. Roberts -- Out of this world : the materiality of the beyond / Jeremy Biles -- "Dolls are scary" : the locus of the spiritual in contemporary Japanese homes / Inge Daniels -- Staging baroque worship in Brazil / Jens Baumgarten -- Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education building / Gretchen T. Buggeln -- Materializing ancestor spirits : name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea / Insoo Cho -- Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor -- Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell.

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