Format:
1 Online-Ressource (720 p.)
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250 color
ISBN:
9780300190366
Content:
The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of ";making sense,"; the studies assembled here ask, How have people 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
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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1. Religion, Sensation, and Materiality: An Introduction
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Part One. Inhabitations
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Introduction
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2. Objects of Possession: Photography, Spirits, and the Entangled Arts of Appearance
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3. “Soft Warm Hands”: Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist Practices and the Materialization of Touch
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4. Possessions and the Possessed: The Multisensoriality of Spirits, Bodies, and Objects in Heian Japan
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5. Tethering Djinns: Sensation, Religion, and Contention in Popular Turkish Media
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6. Shadowy Relations and Shades of Devotion: Production and Possession of the 1886 Smith College Composite Photograph
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7. The Spirit in the Cubicle: A Religious History of the American Office
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8. Sensing the City: Night in the Venetian Ghetto
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9. The Materiality of the Imperceptible: The Eruv
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Interlude One. Contested Grounds
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Introduction
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10. Conversations in Museums
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11. Revolutionary Icons: Alfred Barr and the Remaking of Russian Religious Art
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12. Sonic Differences: Listening to the Adhan in a Pluralistic America
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13. Art and Sensory Contention in a Christian Seminary
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14. Complicated Candy: Sensory Approaches to the Controversy over Sweet Jesus
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15. Space Invaders: The Public, the Private, and Perceptions of Islamic “Incursions” in Secular America
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Part Two. Transgressions
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Introduction
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16. Praying for Grace: Charles Ellis Johnson’s Synesthetic Skin
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17. “The Best Hotel on the Boardwalk”: Church Women, Negro Art, and the Construction of Interracial Space in the Interwar Years
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18. Aestheticizing Religion: Sensorial Visuality and Coffeehouse Painting in Iran
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19. Piety, Barbarism, and the Senses in Byzantium
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20. Paul Gauguin: Sensing the Infinite
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21. Sensory Devotions: Hair Embroidery and Gendered Corporeal Practice in Chinese Buddhism
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22. Shock Value: The Jesuit Martyrs of Japan and the Ethics of Sight
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Interlude Two. Devotional Bodies
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Introduction
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23. Acts of Conversion: Sanctification and the Senses of Race in the Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan
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24. Spiritual Complexions: On Race and the Body in the Moorish Science Temple of America
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25. Sensing Exclusions: Disability and the Protestant Worship Environment
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26. The Divine Touchability of Dreams
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27. When the World Is Alive, Spirit Is Not Dismembered: Philosophical Reflections on the Good Mind
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28. The Shroud of Bologna: Lighting Up Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Sensational Corpus
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Part Three. Transformations
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Introduction
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29. Bodies and Becoming: Mimesis, Mediation, and the Ingestion of the Sacred in Christianity and Islam
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30. Criminal and Martyr: The Case of James Legg’s Anatomical Crucifixion
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31. Extirpation of Idolatry and Sensory Experience in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
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32. Seeing, Falling, Feeling: The Sense of Angels
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33. The Faltering Brush: Material, Sensory Trace, and Nonduality in Chan/Zen Buddhist Death Verse Calligraphies
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34. Transporting Mormonism: Railroads and Religious Sensation in the American West
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35. Slippery and Slow: Chavín’s Great Stones and Kinaesthetic Perception
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36. Spiritual Sensations and Material Transformations in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
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37. Religion, Sensation, and Materiality: A Conclusion
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Contributors
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Index
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300190366
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