The materiality of divine agency
by Benzel, Kim
fromSTUDIES IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN RECORDS
La 4e de couverture porte : "This volume explores two topics of contemporary critical interest, agency and materiality, in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Mi…
This volume explores two topics of contemporary critical interest, agency and materiality, in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Middle Ages and ancient Greece,…
Introduction : Material dynamics -- Animism -- Sacred -- Space -- Time -- Incongruity -- Culture -- Economy -- Colonialism -- Imperialism -- Apartheid -- Shamans -- Mobility -- Popular -- Touching -- Oceans -- Conclusion : Dynamic materiality "Religion: material dynamics is a l…
"Religion: material dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, a…
