Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence Things of Conflict

This volume develops new conceptual and theoretical directions in the study of religion, conflict, and violence through a sharp focus on materiality, drawing upon two previously unrelated fields of scholarship: research on religion and conflict and the material turn within religious studies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Meinema, Erik, editor (editor), Liere, Lucien van, 1967- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill [2022]
Colección:Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ; 19.
Materias:
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Material Religion, Conflict, and Violence / Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema
  • 2 Accessing Things of Conflicts
  • Poking Anthropology with Guns, Martyrdom, and Religion / Younes Saramifar
  • 3 Material Politics, Violence, and Religion
  • A Comparative Study of Islam and Buddhism in the People’s Republic of China / Daan F. Oostveen
  • 4 Bypassing the Bulldozer
  • The Materiality of State Violence on Religion in Kibera, Nairobi / Tammy Wilks
  • 5 When Times Are Out of Joint
  • Contestations of Official Temporal Religious Forms / Christoph Baumgartner
  • 6 Witchcraft, Terrorism, and ‘Things of Conflict’ in Coastal Kenya / Erik Meinema
  • 7 What’s in That Picture?
  • Humanitarian Photographs and the Christian Iconography of Suffering and Violence / Lucien van Liere
  • 8 The Significance of Materiality in Conflict Analysis, Healing, and Reconciliation / Joram Tarusarira
  • 9 A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue
  • Muslims and Jews Expressing Interfaith Solidarity in Response to the Paris and Copenhagen Attacks / Margaretha A. van Es
  • Afterword
  • Things for Thought / Birgit Meyer
  • Index.