Material Religion

Papers
(The TQCC of Material Religion is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Islam Through Objects9
negotiating the sounds of born-again christianity: aesthetic provocations in western ethiopia5
Sensing Sacred Texts5
The art of the jewish family: a history of women in early new york in five objects4
Divine Śakti and Human Power Relations: Studying the Embodied and Enacted Feelings of a Himalayan Hindu Goddess3
Write into Being: The Production of the Self and Circulation of Ritual Knowledge in Afro-Cuban Religious Libretas3
Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World . Edited by Leah Elizabeth Comeau. 2020. London, Bloomsbury206 pp., IS3
The Material Inventories of Millennial Jewish Lives: Affective Learning and Jewish Consumer Culture at the National Museum of American Jewish History Gift Shop2
The Handbook on Religion and Communication2
From Objects to Larger Material Structures / From Belief to Practices2
Material Religion, Material Religion , and the Matter of Critique: On “Belief” / The Art of What Fits in the Headline: On “Art”2
Review ofOmar, la Opera–Outlooks Series, Material Religion2
Material Disruptions in the Rabbinic Landscape2
Turku Cathedral Museum: Two Exhibitions Displaying the Material Heritage of the Cathedral2
Religious Repercussions in Hans Belting’s Anthropology of Images1
Belonging to (Not “in”) Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events1
Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy1
Making the Gods Speak: the Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History1
Cool Christianity: The Fashion-Celebrity-Megachurch Industrial Complex1
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the SensesFigures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses. Niklaus Largier. 2022. Stanford:1
Hans Belting (1935–2023): Images Beyond “The Era of Art”1
The making of faith: human intentions and material influences in the orthodox christian practice of iconography1
Aesthetics, Kinaesthetics, and Taste in Contrasting Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Initiatives1
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil1
The Objects That Remain1
A Veterans’ Talking Circle: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Re-Indigenizing Places1
Special Issue Introduction: Religion and Material Texts in the Americas1
When the Medium was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture When the Medium was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of1
Mobility, Relationality, and the Decolonizing of Religious Studies: A Response to the Special Issue1
Movement and Indigenous Religions: A Reconsideration of Mobile Ways of Knowing and Being1
Printing Infidelity: Watson Heston and the Making of the Impressionable Freethinking Subject, 1873–19001
dining with Russian Old Believers: guesthood, gender roles and rules of ritual purity1
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn1
Illiberal Jewish–Christian Encounters at the Interstices of Gendered Wellness1
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation1
Calvary in Kitzingen: Dragging Your Cross through Eighteenth–Century Franconia1
Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media0
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice0
ASH: Memorializing the 2021 University of Cape Town Library Fire0
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity0
artificial intelligence and religion: between existing ai and grand narratives0
In-between: Studying Lived Plurality from the Interstice0
Scriptural Relations: Colonial Formations of Anishinaabemowin Bibles in Nineteenth-Century Canada0
Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion0
Making Fatima’s Presence Visible: Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran0
sounding the voice of tolerance: the orò secret society at the yorùbá borderlands0
Eternity in the Ether: a Mormon Media History0
Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant AmericaAwkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America. Dana W. Logan. 2022. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 185 pp., 0
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds0
Tools of Magic – Ritual Handling and Human-Thing Entanglement in 19th-Century Finland0
Modalities of co-existence in madina, ghana0
The Central Cemetery in Vienna: Past and Present of Muslim Areas0
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History0
Introduction: on Material and Embodied Power Dynamics and Religion0
My Poison Rosary: On eBay and Desire0
Original Copies: the Newest Reproductions of the Shroud of Turin0
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory0
Mold as Marking0
Paper Icons and Fasting Bodies: The Esthetic Formations of Serbian Orthodoxy0
The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West0
Feeling Apollo: Sensory Engagement in the Sanctuary of Apollo at Klaros0
Materiality of Seclusion: A Decorated Monastic Hermitage in the Dead Sea Escarpment0
Viva George: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
Embodied Wearing: clothing for Artemis in Ancient Athenian Religion 10
Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India0
material religion and artificial intelligence0
Re-Assembling Fairs: eBay, Circulation, and Value0
The Materiality of Turku Cathedral’s Spiritual Treasury: Indulgences0
Helgonskåp. Medieval Tabernacle Shrines in Sweden and EuropeHelgonskåp. Medieval Tabernacle Shrines in Sweden and Europe. Justin Kroesen and Peter Tångeberg. 2021. Peterberg, Germany : Michael Imhof ,0
Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:” Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary0
The Materialities of AI Belief at the Futurium, Berlin0
Post-Secular Art for a Post-Secular Age: Stational Installations of the Via Dolorosa in Western cities0
“Not Built as a Shrine, but as a Sacred Space”: The Devotional Nature of Museums Dedicated to Candidates for Sainthood0
Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany0
Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom0
The Word as Object in Colonial Spanish South America: Juan María de Guevara y Cantos’sCorona de la Divinissima María(Lima, 1644)0
“How Dare Men Mix up the Bible so with Their Own Bad Passions”: When the Good Book Became the Bad Book in the American Civil War0
Time, Materiality, and History in UK-Based Interfaith Solidarity Work0
eBay Method and the Study of Religion0
Cosmic Calligraphy and Character Physiognomy 相字 in Late Imperial China0
Presence and Life in the Work of Hans Belting0
“When I Dance, I Feel the Earth Under my Feet”: Aesthetics and Material Culture in Swiss Neo-Spiritual Dances0
The Public Work of Christmas: Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies0
The Politics and Poetics of O’odham Categories of Movement: Movement in Discourse and Practice0
Exhibiting Evangelicalism: Commemoration and Religion’s Presence of the Past; Does Scripture Speak for Itself? The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation0
pig trotters in madina market0
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States0
Silent Encounters0
Introduction: Material Religion in Central and Eastern Europe0
Materializing Nostalgia: Feet, Youtube, and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela0
Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam0
Betrayal | Resistance, Central Methodist Mission, Cape Town, South Africa0
cut, tuck, and paste: repurposing mass-produced imagery at buddhist shrines in ladakh, india0
Masterpieces for Popular Devotion. The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)0
Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together0
Inventoried Sacred: Reliquaries in Nordic Church Treasuries0
The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters0
A Gallery of Ghosts: Death and Burial in Lands Marked by Trauma0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North0
The Guli: A Shrine of Fluctuating Agencies. Materiality, Spirits and Psychosomatic Experience in the Afro-Amerindian Religion of Dugu0
Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)0
Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel0
Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West0
Exploring the Atmosphere Inside a Liturgical Laboratory0
When does History Begin? Religion, Narrative, and Identity in the Sikh Tradition0
Introduction0
Conversations Elevated: On High Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains. In Conversation with Constanza Ceruti0
Pilgrimage as Peoplehood: Indigenous Relations and Self-Determination at Places of Catholic Pilgrimage in Mi’kma’ki and the Métis Homeland0
Walking the Law throughout the Journey of Nishiyuu0
Finding “Rhythm” on Catholic eBay0
A Study of Women’s Religion, Life, and Agency through Guanyin Hairpins in Ming Dynasty China0
Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience Imagining Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience . Edited by Kathryn R Barush. 2021. Bloomsbury, 261 pp., ISBN: 9780
Curating Commonality: Multimodal Materialities of Intercommunal Northern African Heritage0
Francis of Assisi’s Perfect Jouissance: Theorizing Conversion through Objects and Affects in Early Franciscan Fragments0
Postcards from the Convent0
Kolonya Renaissance: Disinfection, Healing, and the Role of Eau de Cologne during the early COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and its Diaspora0
Nothing to Declare… Apart from Holy Water: Sacralizing Borders and Securitizing Spiritual Things in Fiji0
Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs0
Putin’s Descent: Iconography of the Last Judgment and Politics in Contemporary Ukraine0
painted pomegranates and needlepoint rabbis: how jews craft resilience and create community0
Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin’s House of One0
Visions of Contempt: Emotion and the Visual Culture of the Scopes Trial0
Authority with Textual Materials – Power of the Written Qur’an0
To Wear or Not to Wear: Contesting Hijab at the Pentecost Hospital in Madina0
An Image of the Holy City in the Holy Land ‘Atlit Castle Chapel0
Tattoos and Sonic Imitation: Mantras, Body Tuning and Tattooing as Sounding0
islam and the devotional object: Seeing religion in egypt and syria0
Editorial Note0
beautiful and precarious female dummies in madina0
Deep Surfaces0
An Archive of Religio-Racial Identity0
Material Change: The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-19200
The Art of Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural NarrativesThe Art of Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural Narratives. Heidi J.Hornik, IanBoxall, and BobbiDykema0
Bones, Blood, Wax, and Papal Potencies: Neo-Baroque Relics in Mexico0
Divine Trust ( Amana ) and Climate Change in Jordan: Valuing Water in the Face of Water Scarcity0
The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity0
Space, Place and Religious Landscapes: Living Mountains0
Mary, Queen of Style: Catholic Modest Fashion in Midcentury America0
kla: a tutelary deity at the jamaica marketplace in madina, accra0
Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California0
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race0
Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
The Glastonbury Thorn: Story of a Legend0
Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium0
Sounds of Children in Worship: Materiality and Liturgical-Ritual Spaces0
Reflections from a “Third Space”: “Politics is What Happens Between Bodies”0
The Sacred Cowshed Tree in Urban Hanoi: A Home for Unredeemed Souls0
religion <–> robotics0
Conceptions of Divinity: Statue Making in Contemporary Taiwan and the Ritual of Embedding the Spirit ( Rushen )0
Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After DarwinWild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin. Donovan O. Schaefer. 2022. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 328 pp. ISBN: 970
Reawakening Ancestors, Gods and Spirits: An Investigation into Reconfigurations of “Sacred Space” in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam0
Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities0
Estonian-Finnish Art Connections in the Middle Ages and the Bells of Turku Cathedral0
Material Culture, Experimentation, and Household Lighting in Early Rabbinic Judaism0
When the Text Draws You In: Literacy Assemblages in a Luxembourgish Synagogue0
shaligram pilgrimage in the nepal HimalayasHolly Walters. 2020. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 294 pp., ISBN-10: 9789463721721Reviewed by Donna Yates, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Ne0
On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawai’i in a Belgian museum0
On Possibilities for Sensory Research0
Material Deposits at Sacred Sites—the Many Faces of Modern Paganism in Estonia0
Religious Materialities, Aesthetics, and Protests in Urban Poland: Religious Icons and the Re-Emergence of Civil Society0
Feeling Material Culture: Affect, Power, Sensation0
American religion at The Met Cloisters0
Peering into Prisons, Gazing upon Graves: Early U.S. Missionary Media from Burma0
Coexisting in Color0
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist0
A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe0
The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China0
The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract0
Judaism as Flowers: The Materialized Ideology of the New Synagogue of Szeged0
Representing Muhammad: The Prophet on Screen0
Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, ArizonaRipples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona. Susannah Crockford, 2021. University of Chicago Press. 249 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-226-7780
The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris.0
Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga0
Graham Howes (1938–2020)0
Ritual Disintermediations: Tradition and Transformation of Sati Worship0
The Curious Case of the Condom: How the Secular Matters in the Netherlands0
Crafting to Serve: Craftsmen and Tomb Construction from the 11th to 14th Centuries in China’s Central Plains Region0
Agency, Images, and Visual Culture: the impact of Hans Belting0
3DZiyarat: Lenticularity and technologies of the moving image in material and visual piety0
On Time and Interreligious Materiality – A Postcard from Slavonia0
The Buddha’s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic0
christian globalism at home: child sponsorship in the united states0
Material in text, text in material: a tamil christian lullaby0
Ecological Gothic: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden0
Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape0
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late AntiquityGeorgia Frank.2023unfinished Christians: ritual objects and silent subjects in late antiquityPhiladelphia, PA: University of 0
In and Out of this World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam0
The Mood of the Room0
Etched in Stone: Shaligrams as Object-Texts0
when sound becomes an image: picturingoṃin jainism0
The Awkward Engagements of Material Religion / "The Stuff of Material Religion"0
Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage0
Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace0
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