RT Book
T1 The Efficacy of Intimacy and Belief in Worldmaking Practices
A1 Mohan, Urmila
LA English
PP Milton
PB Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2023
ED 1st ed.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/186103413X
AB Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Efficacious Intimacies of Worldmaking -- Introduction -- Efficacy, Intimacy, and Belief: What Is at Stake? -- Motion, Grasping, and Traversing Distance -- Techniques and Practices Across Religion and Politics -- Processes of Objectification and Subjectivation -- Responding to Modern Worlds: Chapters in this Book -- Notes -- References -- Part I Making the Innermost -- 2 Inexpressible Reading: The Efficacious Non-Discursivity of Drinking the Qur'an -- Talking About the Ingestion of the Qur'an -- Affective Reading -- Conceptualizing the Body in Zanzibar -- Sara's Ingestion of Kombe -- Inexpressibility and the Efficaciously Intimate -- Mind the Gap -- Notes -- References -- 3 Praying Through the Hands: Making Objects and Devotees in Umbanda -- Introduction -- Presenting Umbanda -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Making Dolls and Devotees -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Objects and Bodies in Michael Landy's Shelf Life -- Efficacious Intimacy and the Assemblage -- Semi-detached -- Peripheral Vascular Disease II: Theorising and 'Doing' Disability and Pain -- Shelf Life -- Notes -- References -- Part II Techniques and Rituals of Intimacy -- 5 Tisser Du Lien: Textile Art as a Tautological Performance and Embodiment of an Expression -- Introduction: An Early Intimacy With Textile Techniques -- Tisser Du Lien: From a Visible Form to Invisible Effects -- Experience and Expressions -- Links, Bonds, Ties -- A Living Tapestry, a Rhizomatic Construction -- From the Social to the Spiritual -- The Artist as a Medium -- Conclusion: The Leftovers and Growing Into Tisser Des Liens -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References.
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
SN 9781000994049
K1 Belief and doubt-Political aspects-Case studies
K1 Faith-Case studies
K1 Intimacy (Psychology)-Political aspects-Case studies
K1 Intimacy (Psychology)-Religious aspects-Case studies
K1 Material culture-Political aspects-Case studies
K1 Material culture-Religious aspects-Case studies
K1 Political anthropology
K1 Anthropology of religion