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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality provides a thoughtfully organized, inclusive, and vibrant project of the multiple ways in which religion and materiality intersect. The contributions explore the way that religion is shaped by, and has shaped, the material world, embedding beliefs, doctrines, and texts into social and cultural contexts of production, circulation, and consumption. The Companion not only contains scholarly essays but has an accompanying website to demonstrate the work of performers, architects, and expressive artists, ranging from musicians and dancers to religious practitioners. These examples offer specific illustrations of the interplay of religion and materiality in everyday life. The project is organized from a comparative perspective, highlighting examples and case studies from traditions originating in both East and West. To summarize, the volume: Brings together the leading figures, theories and ideas in the field in a systematic and comprehensive way Offers an interdisciplinary approach drawing together religious studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, sociology, geography, the cognitive sciences, ecology, and media studies Takes a comparative perspective, covering all the major faith traditions  

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Author:   Vasudha Narayanan
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.315kg
ISBN:  

9781118660102

ISBN 10:   1118660102
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   22 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Notes on Contributors Chapter 1: The Persistence, Ubiquity, and Dynamicity of Materiality: Studying Religion and Materiality Comparatively  4 Manuel A. Vásquez Section I: Religious Bodies 81 Chapter 2: The Incarnate Body and Blood in Christianity 82 Jessica A. Boon Chapter 3: Perspectives on Rabbinic Constructions of Gendered Bodies 112 Gwynn Kessler Chapter 4: The One and the Many: Ancestors and Sorcerers in Hohodene Worldview 169 Robin M. Wright Chapter 5: Cognitive Science, Embodiment, and Materiality 202 Nathaniel F. Barrett Section II:  Practices and Performances 240 Chapter 6: From Bells to Bottus: Analyzing the Body and Materiality of Indian Dance in an American University Context 241 Harshita Mruthinti Kamath and Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger Chapter 7: Spirit Incorporation in Candomblé 269 Paul Christopher Johnson Chapter 8: Spiritual Warfare in Pentecostalism: Metaphors and Materialities 310 Simon Coleman Chapter 9: Consider the Tourist 341 Thomas S. Bremer Section III: Spatiality, Mobility, and Relationality 380 Chapter 10: Moving, Crossing, and Dwelling: Christianity and Place Pilgrimage 381 John Eade Chapter 11: Hindu and Sikh Processions in Europe: Material Objects and Ritual Bodies on the Move 415 Knut A. Jacobsen Chapter 12: Geopolitics, Space Sacralization, and Devotional Labor on the U.S.-Mexico Border 441 Elaine A. Peña Chapter 13: The Imagination of Matter: Mesoamerican Trees, Cities, and Human Sacrifice 470 Davíd Carrasco Chapter 14: Material Religion, Materialism, and Non-Human Animals 500 Anna L. Peterson Section IV: Sacred Objects and Beings 530 Chapter 15: Assembling Inferences in Material Analysis 531 David Morgan Chapter 16: Woven Beliefs: Textiles and Religious Practice in Africa 569 Victoria L. Rovine Chapter 17: Beyond the Symbolism of the Headscarf: The Assemblage of Veiling and the Headscarf as a Thing 591 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna J. Secor Chapter 18: Indigenous Sacred Objects after NAGPRA: In and Out of Circulation 617 Greg Johnson Chapter 19: Objects of Memory and Authority: Thinking through and beyond the ""relic"" in Sikh contexts 644 Anne Murphy Section V:  Religion, Food, and Comensality 671 Chapter 20: Religion, Agriculture, and Food: Three Case Studies 672 A. Whitney Sanford Chapter 21: Vaishnava Vegetarianism: Scriptural and Theological Perspectives on the Diet of Devotion 711 Steven J. Rosen Chapter 22: Prasada, Edible Grace 742 Andrea Pinkney Chapter 23: To Eat and Be Eaten: Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice and Ecological Webs 780 Kay A. Read Section VI:  Media and Material Religion 813 Chapter 24: Cinema 814 S. Brent Plate Chapter 25: Religion and Digital Media: Studying Materiality in Digital Religion 843 Heidi A Campbell and Louise Connelly Chapter 26: Aural Media 873 Rosalind I. J. Hackett Section VII:  Economies and Governmentalities of Religion 910 Chapter 27: Colonialism, Orientalism and the Body 911 Sylvester A. Johnson Chapter 28: Dharmaśāstra: Materiality in and of the Hindu Legal Code 949 Patrick Olivelle Chapter 29: Religion and Ethnicity as Located and Localized 978 Terje Østebø Chapter 30: Never Again: Religion, Commodities, and the State 1020 Kevin Lewis O’Neill Index "

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Vasudha Narayanan is Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and a past President of the American Academy of Religion. She is an associate editor of the six-volume Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Her publications include The Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation, and Ritual (1994), The Life of Hinduism (co-edited with John Stratton Hawley, 2007), and Hinduism (2009). Her research has been supported by the Centre for Khmer Studies; the American Council of Learned Societies; National Endowment for the Humanities; the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; the American Institute of Indian Studies/Smithsonian; and the Social Science Research Council.

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