Material Religion: The Journal Of Objects, Art And Belief: v. 1, Issue 1 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845202082 ISBN 13: 9781845202088

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

From Shinto shrines to rosary beads, thangka paintings to missionary tracts, mass-produced posters to gravestones, 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. Highly visual in terms of content and in color throughout, this refereed journal seeks also to bridge the worlds of scholarship and museum practice, and to support all those seeking, at whatever level, to understand and explain the relationships between objects, art and belief.

About this title

About the Author

S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University. David Goa, University of Alberta, Canada. David Morgan, Valparaiso Unviersity, USA. Crispin Paine is Visiting Fellow, University College Chichester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845202082
• ISBN 13: 9781845202088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Plate S. Brent, Morgan David, Paine Crispin, Goa David