Research Catalog

Title

Things : religion and the question of materiality / edited by Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer.

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Houtman, Dick.
• Meyer, Birgit.

Description

482 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The future of the religious past

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Religious articles
• Materialism > Religious aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Material religion: how things matter / Birgit Meyer and Dick Houtman -- The modern fear of matter: reflections on the Protestantism of Victorian science / Peter Pels -- Dangerous things: one African genealogy / Matthew Engelke -- Things that matter: the Extra Calvinisticum, the Eucharist, and John Calvin's unstable materiality / Ernst van den Hemel -- From stone to flesh: the case of the Buddha / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- Rhetoric of the heart: figuring the body in devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus / David Morgan -- Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, and Poussin / W.J.T. Mitchell -- "Has this thing appeared again tonight?": Deus ex machina and other theatrical interventions of the supernatural / Freddie Rokem -- Portraits that matter: King Chulalongkorn objects and the sacred world of Thai-ness / Irene Stengs -- Material mobility versus concentric cosmology in the Sukkah: the house of the Wandering Jew or ubiquitous temple? / Galit Hasan-Rokem --^
• The tasbirwol (prayer beads) under attack: how the common practice of counting one's beads reveals its secrets in the Muslim community of northern Cameroon / José C.M. van Santen -- Miniatures and stones in the spiritual economy of the Virgin of Urkupiña in Bolivia / Sanne Derks, Willy Jansen, and Catrien Notermans -- Fluid matters: gendering holy blood and holy milk / Willy Jansen and Grietje Dresen -- "When you see blood, it brings truth": ritual and resistance in a time of war / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- A pentecostal passion paradigm: the invisible framing of Gibson's Christ in a Dutch Pentecostal church / Miranda Klaver -- The structural transformation of the coffeehouse: religion, language, and the public sphere in the modernizing Muslim world / Michiel Leezenberg -- The affective power of the face veil: between disgust and fascination / Annelies Moors --^
• "There is a spirit in that image": mass-produced Jesus pictures and Protestant-Pentecostal animation in Ghana / Birgit Meyer -- The FedEx saints: patrons of mobility and speed in a neoliberal city / Maria José A. de Abreu -- Enchantment, Inc.: online gaming between spiritual experience and commodity fetishism / Stef Aupers -- Fulfilling the sacred potential of technology: new edge technophilia, consumerism, and spirituality in Silicon Valley / Dorien Zandbergen -- In their own image? Catholic, Protestant, and holistic spiritual appropriations of the Internet / Ineke Noomen, Stef Aupers, and Dick Houtman.

ISBN

• 9780823239450 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780823239467 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012029525

OCLC

• 808930365
• SCSB-10645149

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library