Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: The Persistence, Ubiquity, and Dynamicity of Materiality: Studying Religion and Materiality Comparatively 4Manuel A. Vásquez
Section I: Religious Bodies 81
Chapter 2: The Incarnate Body and Blood in Christianity 82Jessica A. Boon
Chapter 3: Perspectives on Rabbinic Constructions of Gendered Bodies 112Gwynn Kessler
Chapter 4: The One and the Many: Ancestors and Sorcerers in Hohodene Worldview 169Robin M. Wright
Chapter 5: Cognitive Science, Embodiment, and Materiality 202Nathaniel F. Barrett
Section II: Practices and Performances 240
Chapter 6: From Bells to Bottus: Analyzing the Body and Materiality of Indian Dance in an American University Context 241Harshita Mruthinti Kamath and Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Chapter 7: Spirit Incorporation in Candomblé 269Paul Christopher Johnson
Chapter 8: Spiritual Warfare in Pentecostalism: Metaphors and Materialities 310Simon Coleman
Chapter 9: Consider the Tourist 341Thomas S. Bremer
Section III: Spatiality, Mobility, and Relationality 380
Chapter 10: Moving, Crossing, and Dwelling: Christianity and Place Pilgrimage 381John Eade
Chapter 11: Hindu and Sikh Processions in Europe: Material Objects and Ritual Bodies on the Move 415Knut A. Jacobsen
Chapter 12: Geopolitics, Space Sacralization, and Devotional Labor on the U.S.-Mexico Border 441Elaine A. Peña
Chapter 13: The Imagination of Matter: Mesoamerican Trees, Cities, and Human Sacrifice 470Davíd Carrasco
Chapter 14: Material Religion, Materialism, and Non-Human Animals 500Anna L. Peterson
Section IV: Sacred Objects and Beings 530
Chapter 15: Assembling Inferences in Material Analysis 531David Morgan
Chapter 16: Woven Beliefs: Textiles and Religious Practice in Africa 569Victoria L. Rovine
Chapter 17: Beyond the Symbolism of the Headscarf: The Assemblage of Veiling and the Headscarf as a Thing 591Banu Gökarıksel and Anna J. Secor
Chapter 18: Indigenous Sacred Objects after NAGPRA: In and Out of Circulation 617Greg Johnson
Chapter 19: Objects of Memory and Authority: Thinking through and beyond the "relic" in Sikh contexts 644Anne Murphy
Section V: Religion, Food, and Comensality 671
Chapter 20: Religion, Agriculture, and Food: Three Case Studies 672A. Whitney Sanford
Chapter 21: Vaishnava Vegetarianism: Scriptural and Theological Perspectives on the Diet of Devotion 711Steven J. Rosen
Chapter 22: Prasada, Edible Grace 742Andrea Pinkney
Chapter 23: To Eat and Be Eaten: Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice and Ecological Webs 780Kay A. Read
Section VI: Media and Material Religion 813
Chapter 24: Cinema 814S. Brent Plate
Chapter 25: Religion and Digital Media: Studying Materiality in Digital Religion 843Heidi A Campbell and Louise Connelly
Chapter 26: Aural Media 873Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Section VII: Economies and Governmentalities of Religion 910
Chapter 27: Colonialism, Orientalism and the Body 911Sylvester A. Johnson
Chapter 28: Dharmaśāstra: Materiality in and of the Hindu Legal Code 949Patrick Olivelle
Chapter 29: Religion and Ethnicity as Located and Localized 978Terje Østebø
Chapter 30: Never Again: Religion, Commodities, and the State 1020Kevin Lewis O'Neill
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