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Materializing Religion: Expression, Performance and Ritual

Materializing Religion: Expression, Performance and Ritual

Keenan, William
Arweck, Elisabeth

Hardcover

Series: Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Association with the BSA Sociology

Religion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 0754650944
ISBN13: 9780754650942
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 4 2006
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The material symbol has become central to understanding religion in late modernity. Overtly theological approaches use words to express the values and faith of a religion, but leave out the 'incarnation' of religion in the behavioural, performative, or audio-visual form. This book explores the lived experience of religion through its material expressions, demonstrating how religion and spirituality are given form and are thus far from being detached or ethereal. Cutting across cultures, senses, disciplines and faiths, the contributors register the variety in which religions and religious groups express the sacred and numinous. Including chapters on music, architecture, festivals, ritual, artifacts, dance, dress and magic, this book offers an invaluable resource to students of sociology and anthropology of religion, art, culture, history, liturgy, theories of late modern culture, and religious studies.

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