The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality (eBook)

Vasudha Narayanan (Herausgeber)

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2020
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-66008-9 (ISBN)

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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

 

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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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 Gökariksel 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: Dharmasastra: 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

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Notes on Contributors

Nathaniel F. Barrett is a research fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). His current research focuses on the nature and evolution of affect, motivation, and enjoyment.

Jessica A. Boon Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in late medieval and early modern Christian culture, particularly Iberian spirituality and mysticism 1450–1550. Her first monograph is The Mystical Science of the Soul: Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Mysticism (University of Toronto Press, 2012). She publishes on Spanish mysticism, the history of science and spirituality, Passion devotion, Mariology, and theories of gender, pain, affect, materiality, and embodiment.

Thomas S. Bremer Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College, is a historian of religions in the Americas. Much of his published work has focused on religion and tourism. His most recent book is Formed from This Soil: An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America (Wiley, 2014).

Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication and affiliate faculty in Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. She is director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies and author of over 90 articles and books on new media, religion, and digital culture including When Religion Meets New Media (Routledge 2010), Digital Religion (Routledge 2013) and Networked Theology (Baker Academic 2016).

David Carrasco is a Mexican‐American historian of religions who explores the question ‘Where is your sacred place’ in his research and writing on Mesoamerican cultures and the Mexican‐American borderlands. His studies with Mircea Eliade, Charles Long, and Paul Wheatley led him to study the rise of primary urban generation in Mesoamerica and the role of ceremonial centres in the Aztec empire and their transformations during the Gran Encuentro with Spanish imperialism between 1517 and 1810. He is the director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive at Harvard University and the recipient of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle.

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto, and co‐editor of the journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research. His research interests include Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, cathedrals, urban religion, and religious infrastructures, and he has carried out fieldwork in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria. Recent books include The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism (2015, NYU Press, co‐edited with Rosalind Hackett) and Pilgrimage and Political Economy (2018, Berghahn, co‐edited with John Eade).

Louise Connelly is a Senior E‐Learning Developer at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include social media, virtual worlds, and Buddhist communities and identity online. Her publications include ‘Virtual Buddhism: Buddhist Ritual in Second Life’ in Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds, H. Campbell (ed.) (Routledge, 2013) and ‘Virtual Buddhism: Online Communities, Sacred Places and Objects’ in The Changing World Religion Map, S. Brunn (ed.) (Springer, 2015).

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Roehampton, Visiting Professor at Toronto University and a member of the Migration Research Unit, UCL. His research interests focus on urban ethnicity, identity politics, global migration and pilgrimage. Relevant publications include the co‐edited volumes Contesting the Sacred (1991), Reframing Pilgrimage (2004), International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies (2015), and New Pathways in Pilgrimage Studies (2017).

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Emory University. Her theoretical interests include performance, vernacular religion, and gender. She received a John Simon Guggenheim and Summer National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships in 2014–2015 to support research and writing for her book Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds (in press, SUNY Press). Her publications include: an introductory textbook, Everyday Hinduism (2015); When the World Becomes Female: Possibilities of a South Indian Goddess (2013); In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India (2006); Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (1996); and two edited volumes, Oral Epics in India (1989) and Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia (1991).

Banu Gökarıksel is Associate Professor of Geography and Global Studies and the Royster Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as the co‐editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014–2018) and is the recipient of the 2018 American Association of Geographers Enhancing Diversity Award and the 2017 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapman Family Teaching Award. Her research analyses the politics of everyday life and questions of religion, secularism, and gender with a focus on bodies and urban space.

Rosalind I.J. Hackett is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. In fall 2018, she was the Gerardus van der Leeuw Fellow, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen. Her recent (co‐edited) books are Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa (2012), New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa (2015), and The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism (2015). She is an Honorary Life Member of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR).

Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor of the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway and author and editor of many books and numerous articles in journals and edited volumes on Sāṃkhya and Yoga, and on various aspects on religions of South Asia and in the South Asian diasporas. He is the author of Prakṛti in Sāṃkhya‐Yoga: Material Principle: Religious Experience, Ethical Implications (Peter Lang, 1999), Kapila: Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu (Munshiram Manoharlal, 2008), Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: Salvific Space (Routledge, 2013), and Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga (Routledge, 2018) and editor of Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India (Routledge, 2016). Jacobsen is the founding Editor‐in‐Chief of the six volumes Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Brill, 2009–2015) and the Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online.

Greg Johnson is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Johnson’s research focuses upon the intersection of Indigenous traditions and law in American Indian and Native Hawaiian contexts. Recent publications include Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition (University of Virginia Press 2007), Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) (Brill 2017), edited with Siv Ellen Kraft, and Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions (Oxford 2018), edited with Hugh B. Urban.

Paul Christopher Johnson is Professor of History and of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and Co‐Editor of the journal, Comparative Studies in Society and History. He wrote Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé (Oxford 2002), Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (California 2007), and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries on Church and State (Chicago 2018), with Winnifred F. Sullivan and Pamela E. Klassen, and edited Spirited Things: The Work of ‘Possession’ in Afro‐Atlantic Religions (Chicago 2014). He is completing a new book, Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France.

Sylvester A. Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies at Northwestern University. He researches religion, race, empire, and sexuality in the Atlantic world and the relationship between humans and intelligent machines. He recently authored African American Religions, 1500–2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (Cambridge University Press 2015).

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath is Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Assistant Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History at Emory University. Her research focuses on the textual and performance traditions of Telugu‐speaking South India in conversation with theoretical discourses on gender and sexuality in South Asia. She is the author of Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (2019). She has also co‐translated the sixteenth‐century classical Telugu text Parijatapaharanamu (Theft of a Tree) with Velcheru Narayana Rao, which will be published as part of the Murty Classical Library of India (Harvard University Press).

Gwynn Kessler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Conceiving Israel: The...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: amulets</p> • cleansing • Comparative & World Religions • cyber-religion • Embodiment • Feng Shui • Food Taboos • <p>Material religion • Mandalas • material religion • missionizing • music exorcism • Pilgrimage • Prayer Beads • Prayer-Walking • Religion & Theology • religion and food • Religionsästhetik • Religionswissenschaft • Religion u. Theologie • Religious Architecture • religious artifacts • religious materiality • religious rituals • sacralization of nature • sacrificial altars • Spiritual Warfare • Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-118-66008-0 / 1118660080
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-66008-9 / 9781118660089