Making spirits : materiality and transcendence in contemporary religions

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Making spirits : materiality and transcendence in contemporary religions

edited by Diana Espirito Santo and Nico Tassi

(Library of modern religion, 20)

I. B. Tauris, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The analysis of religion has often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies, prioritizing these elements over those of the material world. Through the ethnographic analysis of a variety of contemporary religious practices, Making Spirits questions the presumed separation of spirit and matter, and sheds light on the dynamics between spiritual and material domains. By examining the cultural contexts in which material culture is central to the creation and experience of religion and belief, this volume analyses the different ways in which the concepts of the material and spiritual worlds intersect, interact and inform each other in the reproduction of religious rites. Using examples such as spirit mediums, fetishes and ritual objects across a variety of cultures such as Latin America, Japan and Central Africa, Nico Tassi and Diana Espirito Santo offer insights that challenge accepted categories in the study of religion, making this book important for scholars of comparative religion, anthropology and sociology.

目次

Chapter 1. Introduction / Nico Tassi & Diana Espirito Santo I. SPIRITS IN THE MAKING Chapter 2. Materiality, cosmogony and presence among Cuban spirits and mediums / Diana Espirito Santo Chapter 3. Conchas, candles and flowers in the creation of the Concheros' religiosity / Susanna Rostas Chapter 4. "We worship nature": The given and the made in Brazilian Candomble / Roger Sansi II. TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 5. Knowing what has been done: technology of ritual 'objects' amongst the Abelam (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea) / Ludovic Coupaye Chapter 6. Objects, Bodies and Gods: analysis of an ontological process in the Xango Cult in Recife (Brazil) / Arnaud Halloy Chapter 7. Divinity and experiment: conversion in a Japanese jam jar / Phil Swift III. MATTER AND SPIRITUAL POWER Chapter 8. Forms of fetishism in Kinshasa: historical insights and contemporary practices / Joe Trapido Chapter 9. Things we grow with: spirits, matter and bodies in La Paz, Bolivia / Nico Tassi Chapter 10. Making Matter Matter: The Santo Daime Ritual of Feitio / Andrew Dawson Chapter 11. Concluding remarks and discussion / Martin Holbraad

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