Material Christianity
Western Religion and the Agency of Things
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Beschreibung
This collection of essays offers a series of rigorously focused art-historical, historical, and philosophical studies that examine ways in which materiality has posed and still poses a religious and cultural problem. The volume examines the material agency of objects, artifacts, and environments: art, ritual, pilgrimage, food, and philosophy. It studies the variable "senses” of materiality, the place of materiality in the formation of modern Western religion, and its role in Christianity’s dialogue with non-Western religions. The essays present new interpretations of religious rites and outlooks through the focus on their material components. They also suggest how material engagement theory - a new movement in cultural anthropology and archeology - may shed light on the cultural history of Christianity in medieval and early modern Europe and the Americas. It thus fills an important lacuna in the study of western religion by highlighting the longue durée, from the Middles Ages to the Modern Period, of a current dilemma, namely the divide between materialistic and what might broadly be called hermeneutical or cultural-critical approaches to religion and human subjectivity.
This collection of essays offers a series of rigorously focused art-historical, historical, and philosophical studies that examine ways in which materiality has posed and still poses a religious and cultural problem. The volume examines the material agency of objects, artifacts, and environments: art, ritual, pilgrimage, food, and philosophy. It studies the variable "senses” of materiality, the place of materiality in the formation of modern Western religion, and its role in Christianity’s dialogue with non-Western religions. The essays present new interpretations of religious rites and outlooks through the focus on their material components. They also suggest how material engagement theory - a new movement in cultural anthropology and archeology - may shed light on the cultural history of Christianity in medieval and early modern Europe and the Americas. It thus fills an important lacuna in the study of western religion by highlighting the longue durée, from the Middles Ages to the Modern Period, of a current dilemma, namely the divide between materialistic and what might broadly be called hermeneutical or cultural-critical approaches to religion and human subjectivity.
Crosses the divide between the history of medieval and early modern Europe, the history of the Americas, and the philosophy of religion Adds significantly to current work on the material dimensions of Christianity Is relevant to cultural and church history, the history of religion, theology, art history, cultural anthropology, continental philosophy, and the philosophy of religion
Autor*in
Christopher Ocker
Themen in »Material Christianity«
European Art History Material Culture Materialism and Religion Medieval Religion Philosophy of Religion Process Philosophy (or Theology) Scientific Revolution Cimabue’s True Cross in Arezzo Materiality in Christian Art Pieter Bruegel Ingold's Dwelling Perspective San Diego de Pamatácuaro Vegetarianism in Early Modern England Puritanism and Refinement in Early New Englan Pilgrimage at the El Retiro San Iñigo Labyrinth