Religion, sensation, and materiality : a conclusion / Sally M. Promey. Inhabitations. Objects of possession : photography, spirits, and the entangled arts of appearance / Paul Christopher Johnson -- "Soft warm hands" : ninetheenth-century spiritualist practices and the materialization of touch / Michelle Morgan -- Possession and the possessed : the multisensoriality of spirits, bodies, and objects in Heian Japan / Yui Suzuki -- Tethering Djinns : sensation, religion, and contention in popular Turkish media / Perin Gurel -- Shadowy relations and shades of devotion : production and possession of the 1886 Smith College composite photography / Kati Curts -- Spirit in the cubicle : a religious history of the American office / Kathryn Lofton -- Sensing the city : night in the Venetian ghetto / Dana E. Katz -- Materiality of the imperceptiable : the eruv / Margaret Olin -- Interlude two: Contested grounds. Converstions in museums / James Clifton -- Revolutionary icons : Alfred Barr and the remaking of Russian religious art / Richard Meyer -- Sonic differences : listening to the adhan in a pluralistic America / Isaac Weiner -- Art and sensory contention in a Christian seminary / Kathryn Reklis -- Complicated candy : sensory approaches to the controversy over Sweet Jesus / Horace D. Ballard Jr. -- Space invaders : the public, the private, and perceptions of Islamic "incursions" in secular America / Haroon Moghul -- Transgressions. Praying for grace : Charles Ellis Johnson's synesthetic skin / Mary Campbell -- "The best hotel on the boardwalk" : church women, negro art, and the construction of interracial space in the interwar years / Betty Livingston Adams -- Aestheticizing religion : sensorial visuality and coffeehouse painting in Iran / Minoo Moallem -- Piety, barbrism, and the senses in Byzantium / Vasileios Marinis -- Paul Gauguin : sensing the infitite / June Hargrove -- Sensory devotions : hair embroidery and gendered corporeal practice in Chinese Buddhism / Yuhang Li -- Shock value : the Jesuit martyrs of Japan and the ethics of sight / Mia M. Mochizuki -- Interlude two: Devotional bodies. Acts of conversion : sanctification and the senses of race in the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan / Elaine Y. Yau -- Spiritual complexions : on race and the body in the Moorish Science Temple of America / Judith Weisenfeld -- Sensing exclusions : disability and the protestant worship environment / Erinn Staley -- Divine touchability of dreams / Angie Heo -- When the world is alive, spirit is not dismembered : philosophical reflections on the good mind / Laurel C. Schneider -- Shroud of Bologna : lighting up Pier Paolo Pasolini's sensational corpus / Ara H. Merjian -- Transformations. Bodies and becoming : mimesis, mediation, and the ingestion of the sacred in Christianity and Islam / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Criminal and martyr : the case of James Legg's Anatomical Crucifixion / Meredith Gamer -- Extirpation of idolatry and sensory experience in sixteenth-century Mexico / Barbara E. Mundy -- Seeing, Falling, Feeling : the sense of angels / Meredith J. Gill -- Faltering brush : material, sensory trace, and nonduality in Chan/Zen Buddhist death verse calligraphies / Gregory P.A. Levine -- Transporting Mormonism : railroads and religious sensation in the American West / David Walker -- Slippery and slow : Chavin's great stones and kenaesthetic perception / Mary Weismantel -- Spiritual sensations and material transformations in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park ; Religion, sensation, and materiality : a conclusion / Sally M. Promey.
Summary:
The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book investigates the dynamic constellation of religion, sensation, and materiality, exploring the interpretive worlds of sensory phenomena in material practices of religions. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here consider how people have used and valued sensory data. How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion's sensory and material practice. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity's metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs. -- Publisher.
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