Material Religion: The Journal Of Objects, Art And Belief - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1845202090 ISBN 13 : 9781845202095

Editeur : 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845202090
• ISBN 13: 9781845202095
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Goa David, Morgan David, Paine Crispin, Plate S. Brent
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