{"product_id":"the-wiley-blackwell-companion-to-religion-and-materiality-isbn-9781118660102","title":"The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thoughtfully organized, inclusive, and vibrant project of the multiple ways in which religion and materiality intersect. The contributions explore the way that religion is shaped by, and has shaped, the material world, embedding beliefs, doctrines, and texts into social and cultural contexts of production, circulation, and consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Companion not only contains scholarly essays but has an accompanying website to demonstrate the work of performers, architects, and expressive artists, ranging from musicians and dancers to religious practitioners. These examples offer specific illustrations of the interplay of religion and materiality in everyday life. The project is organized from a comparative perspective, highlighting examples and case studies from traditions originating in both East and West. To summarize, the volume:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together the leading figures, theories and ideas in the field in a systematic and comprehensive way\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an interdisciplinary approach drawing together religious studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, sociology, geography, the cognitive sciences, ecology, and media studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes a comparative perspective, covering all the major faith traditions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Persistence, Ubiquity, and Dynamicity of Materiality: Studying Religion and Materiality Comparatively  4\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eManuel A. Vásquez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: Religious Bodies 81\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Incarnate Body and Blood in Christianity 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJessica A. Boon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Perspectives on Rabbinic Constructions of Gendered Bodies 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGwynn Kessler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The One and the Many: Ancestors and Sorcerers in Hohodene Worldview 169\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin M. Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Cognitive Science, Embodiment, and Materiality 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNathaniel F. Barrett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II:  Practices and Performances 240\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: From Bells to Bottus: Analyzing the Body and Materiality of Indian Dance in an American University Context 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarshita Mruthinti Kamath and Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Spirit Incorporation in Candomblé 269\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Christopher Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Spiritual Warfare in Pentecostalism: Metaphors and Materialities 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Coleman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Consider the Tourist 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas S. Bremer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: Spatiality, Mobility, and Relationality 380\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Moving, Crossing, and Dwelling: Christianity and Place Pilgrimage 381\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Eade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Hindu and Sikh Processions in Europe: Material Objects and Ritual Bodies on the Move 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnut A. Jacobsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Geopolitics, Space Sacralization, and Devotional Labor on the U.S.-Mexico Border 441\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElaine A. Peña\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13: The Imagination of Matter: Mesoamerican Trees, Cities, and Human Sacrifice 470\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavíd Carrasco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Material Religion, Materialism, and Non-Human Animals 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna L. Peterson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection IV: Sacred Objects and Beings 530\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Assembling Inferences in Material Analysis 531\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Woven Beliefs: Textiles and Religious Practice in Africa 569\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria L. Rovine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Beyond the Symbolism of the Headscarf: The Assemblage of Veiling and the Headscarf as a Thing 591\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBanu Gökarıksel and Anna J. Secor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18: Indigenous Sacred Objects after NAGPRA: In and Out of Circulation 617\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreg Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Objects of Memory and Authority: Thinking through and beyond the \"relic\" in Sikh contexts 644\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection V:  Religion, Food, and Comensality 671\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 20: Religion, Agriculture, and Food: Three Case Studies 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. Whitney Sanford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Vaishnava Vegetarianism: Scriptural and Theological Perspectives on the Diet of Devotion 711\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven J. Rosen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 22: Prasada, Edible Grace 742\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Pinkney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 23: To Eat and Be Eaten: Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice and Ecological Webs 780\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKay A. Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection VI:  Media and Material Religion 813\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 24: Cinema 814\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eS. Brent Plate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 25: Religion and Digital Media: Studying Materiality in Digital Religion 843\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeidi A Campbell and Louise Connelly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 26: Aural Media 873\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRosalind I. J. Hackett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection VII:  Economies and Governmentalities of Religion 910\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 27: Colonialism, Orientalism and the Body 911\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSylvester A. Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 28: Dharmaśāstra: Materiality in and of the Hindu Legal Code 949\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatrick Olivelle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 29: Religion and Ethnicity as Located and Localized 978\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerje Østebø\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 30: Never Again: Religion, Commodities, and the State 1020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Lewis O’Neill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVasudha Narayanan\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and a past President of the American Academy of Religion. She is an associate editor of the six-volume \u003ci\u003eBrill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism.\u003c\/i\u003e Her publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation, and Ritual\u003c\/i\u003e (1994),\u003ci\u003e The Life of Hinduism\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with John Stratton Hawley, 2007), and \u003ci\u003eHinduism\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). Her research has been supported by the Centre for Khmer Studies; the American Council of Learned Societies; National Endowment for the Humanities; the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; the American Institute of Indian Studies\/Smithsonian; and the Social Science Research Council.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thoughtfully organized, inclusive, and vibrant study of the multiple ways in which religion and materiality intersect. Each chapter explores the way in which religion is shaped by, and has shaped, the material world, embedding beliefs, doctrines, and texts into social and cultural contexts of production, circulation, and consumption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e is structured from a comparative perspective, highlighting the interplay of religion and materiality in everyday life with examples and case studies from traditions originating in both the East and the West. 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