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Key Terms in Material Religion
About this book
Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories, and traditions, offering a versatile and engaging text for the classroom.
Key topics covered include:
- Icon, ritual, magic, gender, race
- Sacred, spirit, technology,
- Space, belief, body, brain
- Taste, touch, smell, sound, vision
Each entry demonstrates in clear and jargon-free prose how the key term figures prominently in understanding the materiality of religion. Written by leading international scholars, all entries are linked by the ways materiality stands at the forefront of the understanding of religion, whether that comes from humanistic, social scientific, artistic, curatorial, or other perspectives. Brent Plate brings his expertise and extensive teaching experience to the comprehensive introduction which introduces students to the themes and methods of the material cultural study of religion.
Key Terms in Material Religion provides a much-needed resource for courses on theory and method in religious studies, the anthropology of religion, and the ever-increasing number of courses focused on material religion.
Key topics covered include:
- Icon, ritual, magic, gender, race
- Sacred, spirit, technology,
- Space, belief, body, brain
- Taste, touch, smell, sound, vision
Each entry demonstrates in clear and jargon-free prose how the key term figures prominently in understanding the materiality of religion. Written by leading international scholars, all entries are linked by the ways materiality stands at the forefront of the understanding of religion, whether that comes from humanistic, social scientific, artistic, curatorial, or other perspectives. Brent Plate brings his expertise and extensive teaching experience to the comprehensive introduction which introduces students to the themes and methods of the material cultural study of religion.
Key Terms in Material Religion provides a much-needed resource for courses on theory and method in religious studies, the anthropology of religion, and the ever-increasing number of courses focused on material religion.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Material religion: An introduction
- Chapter 1 Aesthetics
- Chapter 2 Belief
- Chapter 3 Body
- Chapter 4 Brain-Mind
- Chapter 5 City
- Chapter 6 Collection
- Chapter 7 Digital
- Chapter 8 Display
- Chapter 9 Dress
- Chapter 10 Emotion
- Chapter 11 Fetish–factish
- Chapter 12 Food
- Chapter 13 Gender
- Chapter 14 Icon (image)
- Chapter 15 Magic
- Chapter 16 Maps
- Chapter 17 Masks
- Chapter 18 Medium
- Chapter 19 Memory
- Chapter 20 Movement
- Chapter 21 Prayer
- Chapter 22 Race
- Chapter 23 Ritual
- Chapter 24 Sacred
- Chapter 25 Screen
- Chapter 26 Sensation
- Chapter 27 Sign
- Chapter 28 Smell
- Chapter 29 Sound
- Chapter 30 Space
- Chapter 31 Spirit
- Chapter 32 Taste
- Chapter 33 Technology
- Chapter 34 Thing
- Chapter 35 Touch
- Chapter 36 Vision
- Chapter 37 Words
- Index
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