The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (623 pages)
- Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion Series .
- Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editor -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 The Persistence, Ubiquity, and Dynamicity of Materiality: Studying Religion and Materiality Comparatively -- 1.1 The Persistence of Materiality -- 1.2 Sources of the Ambivalence Towards Materiality -- 1.3 Characterizing the Turn to Materiality -- 1.3.1 The Recovery of the Body -- 1.3.2 Bodies and Things in and of the Material World -- 1.4 The Collection -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section I Religious Bodies -- Chapter 2 The Incarnate Body and Blood in Christianity -- 2.1 Medieval Materiality and the Body of Christ -- 2.2 The Word Made Flesh and Blood -- 2.2.1 Shaping Body -- 2.2.2 Sweating Blood -- 2.2.3 Wounded Body -- 2.2.4 Blood After Death -- 2.3 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Perspectives on Rabbinic Constructions of Gendered Bodies -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Rabbinic 'Body': Adam -- 3.3 Rabbinic Bodies: The Androginos (and the Tumtum) -- 3.4 Rabbinic Constructions of Gender: A Provisional Spectrum -- 3.5 Doing Rabbinic Gender: Male and Female Performative Acts -- 3.6 Rabbinic Bodies -- 3.7 The Primal Androgyne and the Androginos -- 3.8 Conclusion: Perspectival Gender, Where and How We Look Matters -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 The One and the Many: Ancestors and Sorcerers in Hohodene Worldview -- 4.1 'With Shame He Comes': The Hidden Anomaly -- 4.2 Inside and Outside, Open and Closed: Duality in Kuwai's Body -- 4.3 Viscera, Body Fluids, and their Significance -- 4.4 Kuwai and Growth: The Ancestral Heart/Soul (ikaale) of the Sun Father -- 4.5 Sacred Sounds and Growth -- 4.5.1 Kuwai-ka Wamundana: By Parts -- 4.6 Body Adornments -- 4.7 Connections to Sacred Geography -- 4.8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Cognitive Science, Embodiment, and Materiality. 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Problematic Meaning of Embodied Cognitive Science -- 5.3 Functionalism, Embodiment, and Materiality -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Section II Practices and Performances -- Chapter 6 From Bells to Bottus: Analysing the Body and Materiality of Indian Dance in an American University Context -- 6.1 'Dance and Embodied Knowledge': Conceptualizing the Course (jbf) -- 6.2 Nakha Sikha: Descriptions of the Body from Toe to Head (hmk) -- 6.3 Dancing Feet (jbf) -- 6.3.1 Bare Feet -- 6.3.2 Bells -- 6.4 Bent Knees and Straight Back (hmk) -- 6.5 Mudras: Expressive Hands (hmk) -- 6.6 Face, Eyes, and Hair (jbf) -- 6.7 Vesham: Materiality of Clothing and Ornamentation -- 6.7.1 Practice Vesham -- 6.7.2 Vesham in Performance -- 6.8 Materiality in Motion: The Full Dancing Body -- 6.9 Carrying Indian Embodied Dance Knowledge into New Contexts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Spirit Incorporation in Candomblé -- 7.1 Precedents -- 7.2 Materializing Spirit Incorporation in Candomblé -- 7.3 Affordances and Constraints -- 7.3.1 Spirit Incorporation is Gendered -- 7.3.2 Spirit Incorporation is Labour Intensive -- 7.3.3 Spirit Incorporation is Governed -- 7.3.4 Spirit Incorporation is Itself Possessed -- 7.3.5 Spirit Incorporation can Shift Collective Identifications and Histories -- 7.4 An Exercise of Redescription -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 Spiritual Warfare in Pentecostalism: Metaphors and Materialities -- 8.1 Spiritual Warfare: From Ideology to Strategy -- 8.2 Scaling in Space and Time -- 8.3 Subjectivity and Discipline -- 8.4 Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 Consider the Tourist -- 9.1 Economies of an Existential Phenomenology -- 9.2 Yellowstone Awakenings -- 9.3 Authentic Alterities -- 9.4 Graceland Charisma -- 9.5 Authentic Religion -- Notes -- Works Cited. Section III Spatiality, Mobility, and Relationality -- Chapter 10 Moving, Crossing, and Dwelling: Christianity and Place Pilgrimage -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Theoretical Itineraries -- 10.3 Moving, Crossing and Dwelling: From Theory to Practice -- 10.4 Power and Control: Pilgrimage, Evangelization and Material Religion -- 10.5 Monumentality, Changing Landscapes, Identity, and Memory -- 10.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 Hindu and Sikh Processions in Europe: Material Objects and Ritual Bodies on the Move -- 11.1 Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus and Sikhs in Europe -- 11.2 Processions of the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus -- 11.3 The Sikh Vaisakhi Procession -- 11.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12 Geopolitics, Space Sacralization, and Devotional Labour on the US-Mexico Border -- 12.1 Religion Moves -- 12.2 Emplacing Religion on the Border: Historical and Geopolitical Considerations -- 12.2.1 La Parroquia del Santo Níno: Use, Maintenance, and Expectations -- 12.2.2 Cristo de la Ascensión/Cristo de los Inmigrantes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13 The Imagination of Matter: Mesoamerican Trees, Cities, and Human Sacrifice -- 13.1 The Sacred Tree and the Spanish Conquest -- 13.2 Mesoamerican Cities as Super Materiality -- 13.2.1 Aztec Cosmovision -- 13.3 Sacred Body, Ritual Violence, and the City -- 13.4 Conclusion: Stories on Trees -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14 Material Religion, Materialism, and Non-human Animals -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Religion, Material and Materialist -- 14.2.1 Materialisms New and Old -- 14.3 Animal Studies -- 14.4 Animals and Religion -- 14.4.1 Animals as Religious Objects -- 14.4.2 Animals as Religious Actors -- 14.5 Conclusion: Animals, Anthropocentrism, and Materiality -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section IV Sacred Objects and Beings -- Chapter 15 Assembling Inferences in Material Analysis. 15.1 The Artefact -- 15.2 Specification -- 15.3 Refining Likeness: Putting the Archive to Work -- 15.4 Function and Form in a Religious Technology -- 15.5 Reticulating the Sacred -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 16 Woven Beliefs: Textiles and Religious Practice in Africa1 -- 16.1 Textiles as Clothing for the Spirit World -- 16.2 Textiles and Sacred Places -- 16.3 Textiles and the Afterlife -- 16.4 Conclusion -- Note -- Works Cited -- Chapter 17 Beyond the Symbolism of the Headscarf: The Assemblage of Veiling and the Headscarf as a Thing -- 17.1 The Assemblage of Veiling -- 17.2 The Agentic Thing -- 17.3 The Ethical Problematic -- 17.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 18 Indigenous Sacred Objects after NAGPRA: In and Out of Circulation -- 18.1 Introduction: Law, Tradition, and Mêtis -- 18.2 The Law: Legislators Theorize the Sacred -- 18.3 In Circulation: Makah Whaling -- 18.4 Out of Circulation: Hawaiian Objects -- 18.5 Conclusion: Object Lessons -- Works Cited -- Chapter 19 Relics in the Sikh Tradition -- 19.1 The Materiality of Sikh Traditions -- 19.2 The itihasik: Historical Place and Historical Object -- 19.3 Relic Travels -- 19.4 Relics and the Materiality of Religious Life -- Works Cited -- Section V Religion, Food, and Comensality -- Chapter 20 Religion, Food, and Agriculture: Three Case Studies -- 20.1 The Communities -- 20.2 Brahma Vidya Mandir -- 20.3 Cherith Brook Catholic Worker -- 20.4 Sirius Ecovillage -- 20.5 Body and Labour -- 20.6 Society -- 20.7 Environment -- 20.8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 21 Vaishnava Vegetarianism: Scriptural and Theological Perspectives on the Diet of Devotion -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 The Scriptural Basis of Vegetarianism -- 21.3 Meat Eating in the Vaishnava Tradition -- 21.4 Five Components of Vaishnava Vegetarianism -- 21.4.1 Karma -- 21.4.2 Sattva-guna -- 21.4.3 Ahimsa. 21.4.4 Jiva-daya -- 21.4.5 Naivedya -- 21.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 22 Prasāda, Grace as Sustenance, and the Relational Self -- 22.1 Introduction: Prasāda as Sacred Hindu Food -- 22.2 Commensality, Community, and Prasāda -- 22.3 'Classical' Hindu Food Systems and Prasāda -- 22.4 Prasada as "Universal" Food in Practice -- 22.5 Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 23 To Eat and Be Eaten: Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice and Ecological Webs -- 23.1 Sacrificial Feeding -- 23.2 Sustaining Blood -- 23.3 Sustaining Excrement -- 23.4 To Eat and Be Eaten -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section VI Media and Material Religion -- Chapter 24 Cinema -- 24.1 Brief Background on 'Religion and Film' -- 24.2 Before the Show: The Re-Creation of the World -- 24.3 During the Show: The Body in the Cinema -- 24.4 After the Show: The Afterlives of Film in Afilmic Reality -- 24.5 Conclusion: All the World's a Screen -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Chapter 25 Religion and Digital Media: Studying Materiality in Digital Religion -- 25.1 Introduction -- 25.2 The Rise of Digital Religion -- 25.3 How Materiality Is Manifest and Negotiated in Digital Religion -- 25.4 Translation and Transportation of the Religious Via Virtual Objects, Digital Artefacts and Online Spaces -- 25.5 Online Ritual as Negotiation Between Online and Offline -- 25.6 Digital Aesthetics and Our Engagement with Technological Devices -- 25.7 Key Themes and Challenges in Studying Materiality in Digital Religion -- 25.8 Question of Authenticity and the Authentic Form Online -- 25.9 Questions of Authority and Boundary Making Within Digital Realms -- 25.10 Questions of How the Digital Shapes and Changes Understandings of the Religious -- 25.11 The Future for Studying Digital Material Religion and Culture -- Note -- Works Cited -- Chapter 26 Aural Media. 26.1 Working with Sound.