Sacred Matters

Sacred Matters

by Tracy Pintchman and Corinne G. Dempsey
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 16/11/2015

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Sacred Matters explores the lives of material objects in South Asian religions. Spanning a range of traditions including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the book demonstrates how sacred items influence and enliven the worlds of religious participants across South Asia and into the diaspora. Contributors examine a variety of objects to describe the ways sacred materials derive and confer meaning and efficacy, emerging from and giving shape to religious and nonreligious realms alike. Material forms of deity and divine power are considered along with commonplace ritual items, including images, clay pots, and camphor. The work also attends to materiality's complex role within the "materially suspicious" contexts of Islam, Theravada Buddhism, and Roman Catholicism. This engaging collection presents new frameworks for contemplating the ways in which historical, social, and sacred processes intertwine and collectively shape human and divine activity.

ISBN:
9781438459448
9781438459448
Category:
Oriental religions
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
16-11-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
State University of New York Press

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