Making Spirits (eBook, PDF)

Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religions
Redaktion: Santo, Diana Espirito

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: I.B.Tauris
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857722621
• Artikelnr.: 39419369

Autorenporträt

Diana Espirito Santo is currently a research fellow in social anthropology based at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CRIA, FCSH-UNL). She works between Cuba and Brazil on themes of learning and cognition, personhood, materiality and cosmology in spirit mediumship practices. Nico Tassi is a research associate of the Programa de Ivestigacion Estrategica en Bolivia (PIEB) and visiting scholar at University College London. He has dedicated most of his academic work to the study of Bolivia's indigenous highlanders, focusing on religion and political economy, materiality and transcendence, trade and informality.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Candomblé / 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 Coupayé Chapter 6. Objects, Bodies
and Gods: analysis of an ontological process in the Xangô 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