Things Religion and the Question of Materiality
- New York Fordham University Press 2012
- 482p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Anxieties about things The modern fear of Matter : Reflections on the Protestantism of Victorian Science ...27 Things that matter: The Extra Calvinisticum, the Eucharist, and John Calvin`s Unstable Materially ..62 2. Images and Incarnations From Stone to Flesh : The case of the Buddha .....77 Rhetoric of the Heart: Figuring the body in Devotion to the sacred Haert of Jesus .90 Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, and pousin ..112 Has this thing Appeared agian tonight: Deus ex Machina and other theoretical interventions of the Supernatural ...127 Portraits that matter: King chulalongkorn objects and the sacred world of thai -Ness.....137 3. Sacred Artifacts Material Mobility versus Concentric Cosmology in the Sukkah: The house of the wandering jew or a Ubiquitous Temple....153 The Tasbirwol under attack......180 Miniatures and stones in the spiritual Economy of the Virgin of Urkupina in Bolivia ..........198 4. Bodily Fluids Fluid matters : Gendering holy blood and holy milk ..215 When you see blood, It brings truth: Ritual and resistance in a time of war ....................232 5. Public Space The structural Transformation of the Coffeehouse: Religion, Language, and the Public Sphere in the Modernizing muslim world ...267 The Affective power of the Face Veil : Between disgust and Fascination .....282 There is a Spirit in that Image :Mass-Produced Jesus pictures and Protestant - Pentecostal Animation in Ghana ........296 The FedEx saints: Patrons of Mobility and Speed in a Neoliberal City .....321 6. Digital Technologies Enchantment, Inc: Online Gaming between Spiritual Experience and Commodity Fetishism ....339 In their own Image? Catholic, Protestant, and Holistic spiritual Appropriations of the Internet.............379