Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-300) and index.
Contents:
pt. V. Performance. Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell pt. I. Theory. Body and mind : material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey / Jojada Verrips -- Object theory : toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion / Gordon Lynch -- Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions / David Morgan -- pt. II. Sensation. Tactility and transcendence : epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities / Mary Nooter Roberts -- The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner : body, belief, and the practice of chod / Laura Harrington -- pt. III. Things. Tempering "the tyranny of the already" : re-signification and the migration of images / Allen F. Roberts -- Out of this world : the materiality of the beyond / Jeremy Biles -- "Dolls are scary" : the locus of the spiritual in contemporary Japanese homes / Inge Daniels -- pt. IV. Spaces. Staging baroque worship in Brazil / Jens Baumgarten -- Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education building / Gretchen T. Buggeln -- Materializing ancestor spirits : name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea / Insoo Cho -- pt. V. Performance. Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor -- Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell
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