Material Religion: The Journal Of Objects, Art And Belief: v. 1, Issue 2 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845202090 ISBN 13: 9781845202095

Verlag: Berg Publishers, 2005

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Críticas:

'Material Religion is to be warmly welcomed as a key forum for a neglected area of research. With an impressive range of editors, the inter-disciplinary approach and the emphasis upon material culture in all its diversity will encourage new research on religion, both theoretically and methodologically.' Timothy Insoll, University of Manchester 'I cannot think of a religious tradition that does not depend on material objects for transcendence. In the Christian version, it has been said that you cannot even get the faith started without a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine, and a river. The editors will have their eye out for loaves, bottles, rivers, and their counterparts in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the new religion down the block. Enjoying what these experienced and trustworthy folk publish should enhance the understanding of material motifs and artifacts in relation to spiritual and communal expressions.' Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, The University of Chicago 'Focus on doctrine, beliefs, and ideas has often ignored the myriad ways that people "flesh out" or "body forth" their religious sensibilities in objects and practices. Yet religious passions tend to cluster around devotional objects, images, and music rather than around beliefs that are unaccompanied by material signs. Material Religion will address a much neglected feature of religion, contributing substantially to the understanding of how religion works in people's lives.' Margaret Miles, Professor Emerita of Historical Theology, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

Reseña del editor:

From Shinto shrines to rosary beads, thangka paintings to missionary tracts, mass-produced posters to gravestones, religion is a material process. Charged with culturally-specific sacred meanings, religious objects have been used for purposes of worship, commemoration, art, and even subversion, and have been at the root of some of the world's most hotly contested struggles. Material Religion seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture - images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and sacred space, works of art and mass-produced artifacts. No less important than these material forms are the many different practices that put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction, meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious material culture constructs the worlds of belief. Highly visual in terms of content and in color throughout, this refereed journal seeks also to bridge the worlds of scholarship and museum practice, and to support all those seeking, at whatever level, to understand and explain the relationships between objects, art and belief.

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• Verlag: Berg Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845202090
• ISBN 13: 9781845202095
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Herausgeber: Goa David, Morgan David, Paine Crispin, Plate S. Brent