“…A chapter on the production of pharmaceuticals in plants is also included. Going beyond the usual debate, the book includes case studies from Africa on the adoption of GM crops…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction Religion That Matters: Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala -- Part 1 The Visuality and Aurality of Shiʿi Materiality -- Chapter 1 The Literal and the Hidden Some Bektashi Religious Materialities -- Chapter 2 Mediated Devotion Sound and Media in Transnational Azeri-Turkish Twelver Shiʿism -- Chapter 3 Sonic Messages Hizbullah's Mawlid an-Nabi Celebrations in Lebanon -- Chapter 4 Materializing Cultural Memory From Wartime Eulogies to Panegyric Pop in Contemporary Iran -- Part 2 Gendered Perspectives on Shiʿi Materiality -- Chapter 5 Affective Consanguinity Blood, Mothers and Martyrs on the Battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War -- Chapter 6 Zur-khane A Material Approach to the Embodiment of Twelver Shiʿi Male Virtue Ethics -- Chapter 7 Khidma: In the Service of Ahl al-Bayt Gender, Agency and Social Capital in Shiʿi Religious Statue Art in Kuwait -- Chapter 8 A Price for a Wife or a Token of Love? …”