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The material symbol has become central to understanding religion in late modernity. Overtly theological approaches use words to express the values and faith of a religion, but leave out the 'incarnation' of religion in the behavioural, performative, or audio-visual form. This book explores the lived expression of religion through its material expression, demonstrating how religion and spirituality are given form, and are thus far from being detached or ethereal. Cutting across cultures, senses, disciplines and faiths, the contributors register the variety in which religions and religious groups express the sacred and numinous. Including chapters on music, architecture, festivals, ritual, artefacts, dance, dress and magic, this book offers an invaluable resource to students of sociology and anthropology of religion, art, culture, history, liturgy, theories of late modern culture, and religious studies.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Aspects of religion (non-Christian)

• Full title: Materializing Religion
• Author: William Keenan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780754650942
• ISBN: 0754650944
• ID: 04679878
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 518 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 235 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. August 2006

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