Material Religion: The Journal Of Objects, Art And Belief: 1 - Brossura

Goa, David; Morgan, David; Paine, Crispin; Plate, S. Brent

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1845202090 ISBN 13: 9781845202095

Casa editrice: Berg Pub Ltd, 2005

Riassunto

From Shinto temples to rosary beads, thangka paintings to missionary tracts, 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

S. Brent Plate is at Texas Christian University.

David Goa is at the University of Alberta.

David Morgan is at Valparaiso University.

Crispin Paine is an independent scholar.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Berg Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845202090
• ISBN 13: 9781845202095
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302