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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Material Inventories of Millennial Jewish Lives: Affective Learning and Jewish Consumer Culture at the National Museum of American Jewish History Gift Shop6
Hans Belting (1935–2023): Images Beyond “The Era of Art”6
Turku Cathedral Museum: Two Exhibitions Displaying the Material Heritage of the Cathedral6
Crafting to Serve: Craftsmen and Tomb Construction from the 11th to 14th Centuries in China’s Central Plains Region5
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: 978-0-226-7784
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 ,4
Post-Secular Art for a Post-Secular Age: Stational Installations of the Via Dolorosa in Western cities3
Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom3
Viva George: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border3
kla: a tutelary deity at the jamaica marketplace in madina, accra3
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States2
Introduction: Material Religion in Central and Eastern Europe2
Thinking Through Lost Art: Living Newar Buddhist Traditions Between Temple Theft, Repatriation, and Heritage in Nepal2
Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel2
Revival and Revolution: Neo-Buddhists in National Museum, New Delhi2
Coexisting in Color2
Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany2
Silent Encounters2
“When I Dance, I Feel the Earth Under my Feet”: Aesthetics and Material Culture in Swiss Neo-Spiritual Dances1
The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris.1
American religion at The Met Cloisters1
The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China1
The Hyperreal Sacred: Exploring Buddhist Museums in Taiwan1
Nothing to Declare… Apart from Holy Water: Sacralizing Borders and Securitizing Spiritual Things in Fiji1
“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 War1
islam and the devotional object: Seeing religion in egypt and syria1
To Wear or Not to Wear: Contesting Hijab at the Pentecost Hospital in Madina1
A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe1
Divine Śakti and Human Power Relations: Studying the Embodied and Enacted Feelings of a Himalayan Hindu Goddess1
Introduction: On Buddhist Exhibitions and Museums in Asia1
Tools of Magic – Ritual Handling and Human-Thing Entanglement in 19th-Century Finland1
Material Deposits at Sacred Sites—the Many Faces of Modern Paganism in Estonia1
When the Text Draws You In: Literacy Assemblages in a Luxembourgish Synagogue1
Reflections from a “Third Space”: “Politics is What Happens Between Bodies”1
A Veterans’ Talking Circle: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Re-Indigenizing Places1
What to call a tlamacazqui? nahuatl and spanish translations in the florentine codex1
Religious Repercussions in Hans Belting’s Anthropology of Images1
The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China1
Making the Gods Speak: the Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
The Awkward Engagements of Material Religion / "The Stuff of Material Religion"0
Unpacking Missionary Collections0
Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds0
Sensing Sacred Texts0
Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India0
Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape0
The Guli: A Shrine of Fluctuating Agencies. Materiality, Spirits and Psychosomatic Experience in the Afro-Amerindian Religion of Dugu0
The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters0
Embodied Wearing: clothing for Artemis in Ancient Athenian Religion 10
Feeling Material Culture: Affect, Power, Sensation0
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History0
The Curious Case of the Condom: How the Secular Matters in the Netherlands0
Zombies—Death is Not the End?0
Presence and Life in the Work of Hans Belting0
The Handbook on Religion and Communication0
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion that Matters0
pig trotters in madina market0
Islam Through Objects0
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
The Bible in Photography: Index, Icon, Tableau, Vision0
Retracted Book Review [Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil]0
Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together0
A Gallery of Ghosts: Death and Burial in Lands Marked by Trauma0
Movement and Indigenous Religions: A Reconsideration of Mobile Ways of Knowing and Being0
Material Disruptions in the Rabbinic Landscape0
Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace0
Review ofOmar, la Opera–Outlooks Series, Material Religion0
In-between: Studying Lived Plurality from the Interstice0
When does History Begin? Religion, Narrative, and Identity in the Sikh Tradition0
The Sacred Cowshed Tree in Urban Hanoi: A Home for Unredeemed Souls0
Betrayal | Resistance, Central Methodist Mission, Cape Town, South Africa0
Spirits in the Museum0
Visions of Contempt: Emotion and the Visual Culture of the Scopes Trial0
Mobility, Relationality, and the Decolonizing of Religious Studies: A Response to the Special Issue0
“Not Built as a Shrine, but as a Sacred Space”: The Devotional Nature of Museums Dedicated to Candidates for Sainthood0
Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Tattoos and Sonic Imitation: Mantras, Body Tuning and Tattooing as Sounding0
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory0
Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes! The Material Religion of Footloose0
Material Change: The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-19200
First Knowledges Collection Box Set Series0
Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion0
There is Always Someone in the Storage0
Representing Muhammad: The Prophet on Screen0
Pilgrimage as Peoplehood: Indigenous Relations and Self-Determination at Places of Catholic Pilgrimage in Mi’kma’ki and the Métis Homeland0
In and Out of this World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam0
Aesthetics, Kinaesthetics, and Taste in Contrasting Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Initiatives0
Introduction: on Material and Embodied Power Dynamics and Religion0
The Politics and Poetics of O’odham Categories of Movement: Movement in Discourse and Practice0
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
The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract0
Illiberal Jewish–Christian Encounters at the Interstices of Gendered Wellness0
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
Original Copies: the Newest Reproductions of the Shroud of Turin0
Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066–13200
Conceptions of Divinity: Statue Making in Contemporary Taiwan and the Ritual of Embedding the Spirit ( Rushen )0
dining with Russian Old Believers: guesthood, gender roles and rules of ritual purity0
beautiful and precarious female dummies in madina0
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., IS0
Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California0
A Study of Women’s Religion, Life, and Agency through Guanyin Hairpins in Ming Dynasty China0
Material Religion, Material Religion , and the Matter of Critique: On “Belief” / The Art of What Fits in the Headline: On “Art”0
Ecological Gothic: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden0
Inventoried Sacred: Reliquaries in Nordic Church Treasuries0
Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:” Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary0
Converted Gods: Lives and Travels of Asante Abosom and Asuman Figures0
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
Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition0
Agency, Images, and Visual Culture: the impact of Hans Belting0
The Buddha’s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic0
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
Retraction Statement [Regarding the Book Review of "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" by Rodrigo Toniol]0
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist0
From Objects to Larger Material Structures / From Belief to Practices0
Exhibiting the Mission: Display Lives of the Utrecht Missionary Society Collection0
Etched in Stone: Shaligrams as Object-Texts0
Belonging to (Not “in”) Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events0
Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities0
Materializing Nostalgia: Feet, Youtube, and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela0
Curating Commonality: Multimodal Materialities of Intercommunal Northern African Heritage0
Material in text, text in material: a tamil christian lullaby0
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity0
Estonian-Finnish Art Connections in the Middle Ages and the Bells of Turku Cathedral0
Francis of Assisi’s Perfect Jouissance: Theorizing Conversion through Objects and Affects in Early Franciscan Fragments0
Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin’s House of One0
Revealing Missionary Entanglements with Religious Objects: Examples from the Museum of Religions, University of Marburg0
Faith, “Fetish,” and the Making of Kongo Christianity: Missionary Collecting and the Shifting Meanings of Kongo Crucifixes in Late Colonial Northern Angola0
Cosmic Calligraphy and Character Physiognomy 相字 in Late Imperial China0
An Image of the Holy City in the Holy Land ‘Atlit Castle Chapel0
The Materiality of Turku Cathedral’s Spiritual Treasury: Indulgences0
Authority with Textual Materials – Power of the Written Qur’an0
Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North0
On Possibilities for Sensory Research0
Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage0
Zhunti and Juntei: a Study of the Zhunti Mantra Sheet at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston0
The making of faith: human intentions and material influences in the orthodox christian practice of iconography0
Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam0
Eating Ashure on Ashura: Gastro-Politics and Intra-Muslim Relations in Contemporary Turkey0
Modalities of co-existence in madina, ghana0
Material Culture, Experimentation, and Household Lighting in Early Rabbinic Judaism0
The Central Cemetery in Vienna: Past and Present of Muslim Areas0
Kolonya Renaissance: Disinfection, Healing, and the Role of Eau de Cologne during the early COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and its Diaspora0
Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium0
Masterpieces for Popular Devotion. The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)0
Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy0
Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the Provenance of Egba Material Culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission0
Conversations Elevated: On High Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains. In Conversation with Constanza Ceruti0
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 of0
Introduction0
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation0
Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience Imagining Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience . Edited by Kathryn R Barush. 2021. Bloomsbury, 261 pp., ISBN: 9780
Beyond the Storehouse: The Case of an Early Buddhist Temple Museum in Japan0
Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)0
Reawakening Ancestors, Gods and Spirits: An Investigation into Reconfigurations of “Sacred Space” in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam0
Walking the Law throughout the Journey of Nishiyuu0
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America0
Eternity in the Ether: a Mormon Media History0
The Fate of African Collections in European Museums0
Making Fatima’s Presence Visible: Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran0
Materiality of Seclusion: A Decorated Monastic Hermitage in the Dead Sea Escarpment0
Theodicy of Privilege and the Development of a Colossal Buddhist Statue and Art Museum in Post-handover Hong Kong0
Paper Icons and Fasting Bodies: The Esthetic Formations of Serbian Orthodoxy0
Editorial Note0
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:0
Religious Materialities, Aesthetics, and Protests in Urban Poland: Religious Icons and the Re-Emergence of Civil Society0
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race0
Putin’s Descent: Iconography of the Last Judgment and Politics in Contemporary Ukraine0
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
Judaism as Flowers: The Materialized Ideology of the New Synagogue of Szeged0
On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawai’i in a Belgian museum0
Time, Materiality, and History in UK-Based Interfaith Solidarity Work0
Divine Trust ( Amana ) and Climate Change in Jordan: Valuing Water in the Face of Water Scarcity0
Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media0
Doorposts of Inclusion: Trans Pride Mezuzah as a Marker of Jewish-Queer Space0
Mary, Queen of Style: Catholic Modest Fashion in Midcentury America0
Seekers, Seers and Soothsayers: Artistic Mediations of the Nonphysical World0
On Time and Interreligious Materiality – A Postcard from Slavonia0
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