Sensational religion : sensory cultures in material practice /
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014] |
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| Description: | xiii, 704 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10089914 |
Table of Contents:
- Religion, sensation, and materiality: an introduction / Sally M. Promey
- Pt. One: Inhabitations
- Objects of possession: photography, spirits, and the entangled arts of appearance / Paul Christopher Johnson
- "Soft warm hands": ninetheenth-century spiritualist practices and the materialization of touch / Michelle Morgan
- Possession and the possessed: the multisensoriality of spirits, bodies, and objects in Heian Japan / Yui Suzuki
- Tethering Djinns: sensation, religion, and contention in popular Turkish media / Perin Gurel
- Shadowy relations and shades of devotion: production and possession of the 1886 Smith College composite photography / Kati Curts
- The spirit in the cubicle: a religious history of the American office / Kathryn Lofton
- Sensing the city: night in the Venetian ghetto / Dana E. Katz
- The materiality of the imperceptiable: the eruv / Margaret Olin
- Interlude One: Contested grounds
- Converstions in museums / James Clifton
- Revolutionary icons: Alfred Barr and the remaking of Russian religious art / Richard Meyer
- Sonic differences: listening to the adhan in a pluralistic America / Isaac Weiner
- Art and sensory contention in a Christian seminary / Kathryn Reklis
- Complicated candy? sensory approaches to the controversy over Sweet Jesus / Horace D. Ballard Jr.
- Space invaders: the public, the private, and perceptions of Islamic "incursions" in secular America / Haroon Moghul
- Pt. Two: Transgressions
- Praying for grace: Charles Ellis Johnson's synesthetic skin / Mary Campbell
- "The best hotel on the boardwalk": church women, negro art, and the construction of interracial space in the interwar years / Betty Livingston Adams
- Aestheticizing religion: sensorial visuality and coffeehouse painting in Iran / Minoo Moallem
- Piety, barbrism, and the senses in Byzantium / Vasileios Marinis
- Paul Gauguin: sensing the infitite / June Hargrove
- Sensory devotions: hair embroidery and gendered corporeal practice in Chinese Buddhism / Yuhang Li
- Shock value: the Jesuit martyrs of Japan and the ethics of sight / Mia M. Mochizuki
- Interlude two: Devotional bodies
- Acts of conversion: sanctification and the senses of race in the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan / Elaine Y. Yau
- Spiritual complexions: on race and the body in the Moorish Science Temple of America / Judith Weisenfeld
- Sensing exclusions: disability and the protestant worship environment / Erinn Staley
- The divine touchability of dreams / Angie Heo
- When the world is alive, spirit is not dismembered: philosophical reflections on the good mind / Laurel C. Schneider
- The Shroud of Bologna: lighting up Pier Paolo Pasolini's sensational corpus / Ara H. Merjian
- Pt. Three: Transformations
- Bodies and becoming: mimesis, mediation, and the ingestion of the sacred in Christianity and Islam / Finbarr Barry Flood
- Criminal and martyr: the case of James Legg's Anatomical Crucifixion / Meredith Gamer
- Extirpation of idolatry and sensory experience in sixteenth-century Mexico / Barbara E. Mundy
- Seeing, Falling, Feeling: the sense of angels / Meredith J. Gill
- The faltering brush: material, sensory trace, and nonduality in Chan/Zen Buddhist death verse calligraphies / Gregory P.A. Levine
- Transporting Mormonism: railroads and religious sensation in the American West / David Walker
- Slippery and slow: Chavin's great stones and kenaesthetic perception / Mary Weismantel
- Spiritual sensations and material transformations in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park / Sally M. Promey
- Religion, sensation, and materiality: a conclusion / Sally M. Promey.
