Material Religion in Modern Britain The Spirit of Things [Hardcover]

This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain. It makes a critical intervention in British studies of religion by bringing the analytical insights of material culture, to bear on religion in the British World.Introduction: Materiality and Religious History; Lucinda Matthews-Jones and Timothy Willem Jones
Part I: Material Sectarianism
1. Objects of Transcendence: Scots-Presbyterianism and an Anthropology of Things; Joe Webster
2. The Material and Visual Culture of the Construction of Irish Catholic Identity:
Saint Colman ' 's Cathedral, Queenstown, County Cork; Ann Wilson
3. Sanctifying the Street: Urban Space, Material Christianity and the G. F. Watts Mosaic in London, 1883 to the Present Day; Lucinda Matthews-Jones
Part II: Material Religion, Sex and Gender
4. Fashioning Church Interiors: The Importance of Female Amateur Designers; Jim Cheshire
5. Sounds Taken as Wonders: Revivalist Politics as Religious Experience in Early Twentieth-Century Britain; Jacqui de Vries
6. Early Victorian Moral Anxiety and the Queer Legacy of the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Revival; Dominic Janes
Part III: Material Religion in Postsecular Britain
7. Interfaith Home Decorating: An Exploration of Religiosity and Home Artefacts within British Interfaith Hybrid Coupledom; Candace Hoffman-Hussain
8. Skin as Spiritual Script: Tibetan Buddhism, Tattoos and the West; Jill Sudbury
9. An Ancient Modernity: Ikons and the Re-emergence of Orthodox Britain; Timothy Carroll
10. An English Shade of Animism: Contemporary Statue Devotion and the Glastonbury Goddess Temple; Amy Whitehead

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