Objects, object-ness, and shadows of meanings: carving prayer beads and exploring their materiality alongside a Khaksari Sufi Murshid
Prayer beads, through processes of craftsmanship and trade, arrive at meanings, significations, and imaginative associations that are inscribed by religious-cultural codes or social networks. The shadows of meanings overwhelm their material existence as prayer beads despite their lives beginning bef...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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Material religion
Ano: 2018, Volume: 14, Número: 3, Páginas: 368-388 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Iran
/ Khāksār
/ Corda de oração
/ Objeto sagrado
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AG Vida religiosa BJ Islã |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
anthropology of materiality
B Islã B objectness B speculative realism B object-oriented ontology B Sufism B Rosary B Surplus B OOO |
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| Resumo: | Prayer beads, through processes of craftsmanship and trade, arrive at meanings, significations, and imaginative associations that are inscribed by religious-cultural codes or social networks. The shadows of meanings overwhelm their material existence as prayer beads despite their lives beginning before their enactment within the socio-cultural and religious networks. Therefore, alongside an Iranian Sufi murshid, I follow the object-ness and the life of rosaries and prayer beads in an "apprenticeship ethnographic" journey. I address the material life of rosaries to explain how their object-ness contributes to their materiality and meaning formation that they gain in a Sufi order. An approach informed by speculative realism and object-oriented ontology (OOO) is chosen to examine what it means to study a religious object-in-itself. I follow the religiously loaded object and its spiritual traces by way of OOO to forgo the meanings and relationships that shadow the objects. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2018.1487765 |