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 tashriwol (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 Drensen -- "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 -- Online, 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.
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