Bielo James. 2016. Materializing the Bible: Ethnographic Methods for the Consumption Process. Practical Matters 9. Abstract: Throughout the world there are over 200 …
Materiality
Golomski, “Wearing Memories”
Golomski, Casey. 2016. Wearing Memories: Clothing and the Global Lives of Mourning in Swaziland. Material Religion 11(3): 303-327. Abstract: This article situates a …
Patterson, “Plymouth Rock of the American West”
Patterson, Sara M. 2015. The Plymouth Rock of the American West: Remembering, Forgetting, and Becoming American in Utah. Material Religion 11(3): 329-353. …
Boylston, “Death and the Semiotics of Remembrance”
Boylston, Tom. 2015. “And Unto Dust Thou Shalt Return”: Death and the Semiotics of Remembrance in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian …
Webster, “Objects of Transcendence”
Webster, Joseph. “Objects of Transcendence: Scots Protestantism and an Anthropology of Things.” In Material Religion in Modern Britain. T. W. …
Blanton, Anderson. 2015. Hittinâ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
Reviewed by James S. Bielo (Miami University). Come and listen in to the radio station, Where the mighty hosts of heaven sing, Turn your radio on, turn your radio on, Turn your radio on, turn your radio on…
So sings John Hartford on his 1971 cover of the 1938 southern Gospel standard.
de Abreu, “Worldings”
de Abreu, Mari JoĂ© A. 2015. Worldings: the aesthetics of authority among Catholic Charismatics in Brazil. Culture and Religion. Early …
Lindhardt, “Mediating Money”
Lindhardt, Martin. 2015. âMediating Money: Materiality and Spiritual Warfare in Tanzanian Charismatic Christianity.â In The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and …
Bandak, “Reckoning with the Inevitable”
Bandak, Andreas. 2015. Reckoning with the Inevitable: Death and Dying among Syrian Christians during the Uprising. Ethnos 80(5): 671-691. Abstract:Â Since …
Bielo, “Literally Creative”
Bielo, James. 2015. Literally Creative: Intertextual Gaps and Artistic Agency. In Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political, edited by Vincent L. …