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Things : religion and the question of materiality / edited by Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer.

Contributor(s): Houtman, Dick | Meyer, Birgit
Material type: TextTextSeries: Future of the religious past: Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012Description: xvi, 482 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780823239450 (cloth : alk. paper); 0823239454 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780823239467 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0823239462 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Religious articles | Materialism -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 203 LOC classification: BL603 | .T45 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Material religion - how things matter / Birgit Meyer, 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 a ubiquitous temple? / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- The tasbirwol (prayer beads) under attack : how the common practice of counting one's beads reveals its secrets in the Muslim community of North Cameroon / José C.M. van Santen -- Miniatrues and stones in the spiritual economy of the Virgin of Urkupiña in Bolivia / Sanne Derks, WIlly Jansen, Catrien Notermans -- Fluid matters : gendering holy blood and holy milk / Willy Jansen, Grietje Dresen -- "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 Moor -- "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 -- Enchantment, 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, Dick Houtman.

"This book has grown out of the international conference Things : material religion and the topography of divine spaces, organized in Amsterdam on June 11 and 12, 2007, on behalf of the research program The future of the religious past, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Material religion - how things matter / Birgit Meyer, Dick Houtman -- Part I : anxieties about things -- 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 -- Part II : images and incarnations -- 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 --

Part III : sacred artifacts -- Material mobility versus concentric cosmology in the Sukkah : the house of the wandering Jew or a ubiquitous temple? / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- The tasbirwol (prayer beads) under attack : how the common practice of counting one's beads reveals its secrets in the Muslim community of North Cameroon / José C.M. van Santen -- Miniatrues and stones in the spiritual economy of the Virgin of Urkupiña in Bolivia / Sanne Derks, WIlly Jansen, Catrien Notermans -- Part IV : bodily fluids -- Fluid matters : gendering holy blood and holy milk / Willy Jansen, Grietje Dresen -- "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 --

Part V : public space -- 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 Moor -- "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 -- Part VI : digital technologies -- Enchantment, 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, Dick Houtman.

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