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OverviewFrom Shinto shrines to rosary beads, thangka paintings to missionary tracts, mass-produced posters to gravestones, religion is a material process. Charged with culturally-specific sacred meanings, religious objects have been used for purposes of worship, commemoration, art, and even subversion, and have been at the root of some of the world's most hotly contested struggles. Material Religion seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture - images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and sacred space, works of art and mass-produced artifacts. No less important than these material forms are the many different practices that put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction, meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious material culture constructs the worlds of belief. Highly visual in terms of content and in color throughout, this refereed journal seeks also to bridge the worlds of scholarship and museum practice, and to support all those seeking, at whatever level, to understand and explain the relationships between objects, art and belief. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Crispin Paine , David Morgan , Brent S. Plate , Birgit MeyerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Berg Publishers ISBN: 9781847885197ISBN 10: 1847885195 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 01 November 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsSpecial issue: Christian Arts of Africa and its Diaspora Guest Edited by Elisha P. Renne Articles Allen F. Roberts and Elisha P. Renne, Introduction Afe Adogame, Ranks and Robes: Art Symbolism, Identity in the Celestial Church of Christ in Diaspora-Europe Malika Kraamer, Weaving a Biblical Text: Ewe Cloth and Christianity Anitra Nettleton, Jackson Hlungwani's Altars: An African Christian Theology in Wood and Stone Elisha P. Renne, Consecrated Garments and Spaces in the Cherubim and Seraphim Church Diaspora Raymond A. Silverman, Ethiopian Orthodox Visual Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: A Research Note In Conversation Laurel B. Aguilar, Inculturating Nyau: Nyau Masks in a Christian Paradigm Nicholas J. Bridger, Oye-Ekiti Workshop: Creating African Christian Art in Nigeria Elizabeth Rankin, Mission Madonnas: Imaging an African Mother of GodReviews'Material Religion is to be warmly welcomed as a key forum for a neglected area of research. With an impressive range of editors, the inter-disciplinary approach and the emphasis upon material culture in all its diversity will encourage new research on religion, both theoretically and methodologically.' Timothy Insoll, University of Manchester 'I cannot think of a religious tradition that does not depend on material objects for transcendence. In the Christian version, it has been said that you cannot even get the faith started without a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine, and a river. The editors will have their eye out for loaves, bottles, rivers, and their counterparts in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the new religion down the block. Enjoying what these experienced and trustworthy folk publish should enhance the understanding of material motifs and artifacts in relation to spiritual and communal expressions.' Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Profes Author InformationBirgit Meyer is at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. David Morgan is at Duke University, USA. Crispin Paine is at University College London, UK. S. Brent Plate is at Hamilton College, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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