RELIGION 911: Religious Material Culture in Theory and Practice

This course examines prevailing theories and methods of studying objects, spaces, images, and the senses as primary forms of evidence for understanding religions. The course opens with consideration of thing-theory, objects, and methods of studying material culture. The next section examines theories of materiality and material culture. Agency is the topic of the next portion, followed by embodiment, emotion, and belief. The course ends with consideration of space, place, and non-place. Major theoretical approaches to receive attention are phenomenology, actor-network-theory, and new materialism.

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