Religion and material culture : the matter of belief

Abstract

Introduction: 'The Matter of Belief' (David Morgan) Part 1: Theory 1. Body and Mind: Material for a Never-ending Intellectual Odyssey (Jojada Verrips) 2. Object Theory: Toward an Intersubjective, Mediated, and Dynamic Theory of Religion (Gordon Lynch) 3. Materiality, Social Analysis, and the Study of Religions (David Morgan) Part 2: Sensation 4. Tactility and Transcendence: Epistemologies of Touch in African Arts and Spiritualities (Mary Nooter Roberts) 5. The Feeling of Buddhahood, or Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Body, Belief and the Practice of Chod (Laura Harrington) Part 3: Things 6. Tempering 'the Tyranny of the Already': Re-Signification and the Migration of Images (Allen F. Roberts) 7. Out of This World: The Materiality of the Beyond (Jeremy Biles) 8. The Material Culture of Japanese Domesticity (Inge Daniels) Part 4: Spaces 9. Baroque Worship in Brazil (Jens Baumgarten) 10. Form, Function, and Failure in Postwar Protestant Christian Education Building (Gretchen T. Buggeln) 11. Materializing Ancestor Spirits: Name Tablets, Portraits, and Tombs in Korea (Insoo Cho) Part 5: Performance 12. Clothing as Embodied Experience of Belief (Anna-Karina Hermkens) 13. Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo: The Aesthetics of Pilgrimage to Mecca (Richard McGregor) 14. Performing Statues (Jon P. Mitchell)

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