Key Terms in Material Religion
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Key Terms in Material Religion

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. Material religion: An introduction
  7. Chapter 1 Aesthetics
  8. Chapter 2 Belief
  9. Chapter 3 Body
  10. Chapter 4 Brain-Mind
  11. Chapter 5 City
  12. Chapter 6 Collection
  13. Chapter 7 Digital
  14. Chapter 8 Display
  15. Chapter 9 Dress
  16. Chapter 10 Emotion
  17. Chapter 11 Fetish–factish
  18. Chapter 12 Food
  19. Chapter 13 Gender
  20. Chapter 14 Icon (image)
  21. Chapter 15 Magic
  22. Chapter 16 Maps
  23. Chapter 17 Masks
  24. Chapter 18 Medium
  25. Chapter 19 Memory
  26. Chapter 20 Movement
  27. Chapter 21 Prayer
  28. Chapter 22 Race
  29. Chapter 23 Ritual
  30. Chapter 24 Sacred
  31. Chapter 25 Screen
  32. Chapter 26 Sensation
  33. Chapter 27 Sign
  34. Chapter 28 Smell
  35. Chapter 29 Sound
  36. Chapter 30 Space
  37. Chapter 31 Spirit
  38. Chapter 32 Taste
  39. Chapter 33 Technology
  40. Chapter 34 Thing
  41. Chapter 35 Touch
  42. Chapter 36 Vision
  43. Chapter 37 Words
  44. Index