Making spirits : materiality and transcendence in contemporary religions /: materiality and transcendence in contemporary religions. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Diana Espirito Santo and Nico Tassi.
• Editors: Espirito Santo, Diana; Tassi, Nico
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction / Nico Tassi & Diana Espirito SantoI. SPIRITS IN THE MAKINGChapter 2. Materiality, cosmogony and presence among Cuban spirits and mediums / Diana Espirito SantoChapter 3. Conchas, candles and flowers in the creation of the Concheros' religiosity / Susanna RostasChapter 4. 'We worship nature': The given and the made in Brazilian Candomblé / Roger SansiII. TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 5. Knowing what has been done: technology of ritual 'objects' amongst the Abelam (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea) / Ludovic CoupayéChapter 6. Objects, Bodies and Gods: analysis of an ontological process in the Xangô Cult in Recife (Brazil) / Arnaud HalloyChapter 7. Divinity and experiment: conversion in a Japanese jam jar / Phil SwiftIII. MATTER AND SPIRITUAL POWERChapter 8. Forms of fetishism in Kinshasa: historical insights and contemporary practices / Joe TrapidoChapter 9. Things we grow with: spirits, matter and bodies in La Paz, Bolivia / Nico TassiChapter 10. Making Matter Matter: The Santo Daime Ritual of Feitio / Andrew DawsonChapter 11. Concluding remarks and discussion / Martin Holbraad.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 203.7; Religious articles; Ceremonial objects; Mediums; Ritual; Mind and body
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857734068; 0857734067
• Related ISBNs: 9781848857964
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