The Material Turn in the Study of Religion

Material things and phenomena have come to vie with belief and thought as worthy subjects of inquiry in the interdisciplinary study of religion. Yet, to the extent that we are justified in speaking of a "material turn", no consensus has arisen about what materiality is or does. This articl...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hazard, Sonia (Συγγραφέας)
Τύπος μέσου: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
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Έκδοση: Berghahn [2013]
Στο/Στη: Religion and society
Έτος: 2013, Τόμος: 4, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 58-78
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά:B Phenomenology
B Materiality
B New Materialism
B religion and material culture
B Material Turn
B theory and method
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Σύνοψη:Material things and phenomena have come to vie with belief and thought as worthy subjects of inquiry in the interdisciplinary study of religion. Yet, to the extent that we are justified in speaking of a "material turn", no consensus has arisen about what materiality is or does. This article offers a preliminary sketch of the diverse terrain of material religion studies, delineating three dominant approaches to religious materiality as well as an emerging alternative. It argues that the dominant approaches—respectively characterized by an emphasis on symbolism, material disciplines, and phenomenological experience—continue to privilege the human subject while material things themselves struggle to come into sharp focus. That is, they remain anthropocentric and beholden to the biases against materiality deeply entrenched in the study of religion. Such biases may be negotiated more successfully via the emerging alternative "new materialism".
ISSN:2150-9301
Περιλαμβάνει:Enthalten in: Religion and society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2013.040104