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{"title":"Mary, Queen of Style: Catholic Modest Fashion in Midcentury America","authors":"Jillian M. Ewalt","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2266336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2266336","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the middle of the twentieth century tensions arose in American Catholicism surrounding clothing and modest femininity. As more revealing garments made their way into popular culture, Catholics began to both emphasize and question the importance of modest clothing. Two groups emerged to promote the modesty cause. Supply the Demand for the Supply was a youth-led activist group and the Marilyke Crusade was a priest-led purity initiative. Both groups were influenced by the rise in popular devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, rooted in Marian symbolism, and emphasized the importance of full coverage fashion as it related to Catholic values. Despite their similarities, the two groups functioned separately from one another and under distinctly different identities. This article compares the history and activities of the two groups while analyzing lived religion through Catholic material culture.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"37 1","pages":"373 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139351338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Original Copies: The Newest Reproductions of the Shroud of Turin","authors":"Andrew R. Casper","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2232290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2232290","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Shroud of Turin is one of Christianity’s most famous, and controversial, sacred artifacts. A large part of its fame is due to the manufacture of reproductions which for five centuries have provided the means to worship the Shroud in absentia. The newest of these, from a project titled Lino Val Gandino, interweave the legacies of centuries of copying up through and including modern digital renderings, multimedia broadcasts, and mass-produced pilgrimage souvenirs that today sustain devotion to the original Shroud. But they stand apart by the unprecedented attention to recreating the original through novel forms of production to achieve enhanced material and mimetic exactness. This paper argues that the Lino Val Gandino reproductions of the Shroud of Turin become “original copies” that make claims to their own authenticity and originality. In so doing, these copies constitute mediative and material means of religious devotion not recognized in the types of artistic images and popular objects hitherto studied by scholars in art history and religious studies.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46860741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Not Built as a Shrine, but as a Sacred Space”: The Devotional Nature of Museums Dedicated to Candidates for Sainthood","authors":"Nathan E. Fleeson","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2232291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2232291","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While museums have long been referred to as “secular shrines,” resembling the devotional attitude given to religious figures, with the rise in museums dedicated to candidates for sainthood, we are seeing how religious institutions are starting to use the museum model to create religious shrines as well. These are private institutions, separated from the Church proper, in order to avoid any charge of creating a public cult for the saint-to-be (and so endangering the cause for canonization), and instead creating a shared space for private devotions. Given the history of museum practice, which has often overlapped with devotional models, the museum becomes a natural means to create this shared, private space for people to venerate the candidate for sainthood, while also petitioning for their later canonization.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48609923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China","authors":"Yang Shen","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2251356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2251356","url":null,"abstract":"Among the most noteworthy practices in Buddhist temples in China today are yuan or wish-vow actions. Wish-vows encompass both wish-making (xuyuan 许愿) and vow-giving (fayuan 发愿), with both modalities embraced by average temple-goers from a general population. Chinese Buddhist liturgies encourage ritual performers to adopt a bodhisattva stance, wishing/vowing for the well-being of all beings. This introduces an ethical dimension to yuan performances. This paper analyzes the continuity in practice between wish-making and vow-giving, exploring how popular and Buddhist understandings of ritual entangle and how ritual generates meaningful narratives for practitioners. The article shows how the human pursuit of ritual effects and ethical self-transformation are not contradictory but rather complementary processes. Considering this Chinese ritual situation deepens our comprehension of votive practices in syncretic religious traditions. Additionally, it offers a new direction for considering religious potentialities in late socialist societies. Furthermore, it usefully challenges the use of the term “prayer” in Chinese contexts. In this way, the article bridges anthropology, Chinese studies, and religious studies and enhances our conceptual toolkit for studying ongoing human transformation.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135950567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin’s House of One","authors":"M. Burchardt","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2196655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2196655","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing on an analysis of the multi-religious architectural project called “House of One” in Berlin, this article explores the spatial dynamics surrounding multi-religious places by design. My central questions are: How are liberal notions of tolerance, religious sharing, and diversity addressed and translated in the medium of architecture? And what are the spatial dynamics that facilitate the formation of urban, national, and transnational publics in which understandings of shared sacred space are negotiated? I suggest that emblematic architectural projects such as the House of One acquire their material shape and political meanings not only through design practices but also through media-driven processes of communicative construction and the ways in which affect dispersed audiences by animating their fantasies of peaceful coexistence. Inspired by theories of iconicity, research on urban religion and studies of interreligious dialogue, I explore the narratives and material practices that turn the House of One into a new urban emblem. I argue that as a socio-material energy that is fundamentally relational, iconic force emerges from the ways people attach their vision of interreligious peace to buildings such as the House of One, begin to see them actualized through the building itself, and develop affective ties to it.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"19 1","pages":"101 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46294734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Gallery of Ghosts: Death and Burial in Lands Marked by Trauma","authors":"Catherine Wanner, Zusanna Bogumił, Sergei Shtyrkov, K. Gurchiani","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2224161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2224161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"19 1","pages":"191 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41761681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America","authors":"Lauren R. Kerby","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2221583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2221583","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"19 1","pages":"203 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45163607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Viva George: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border","authors":"Barbara Sostaita","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2221580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2221580","url":null,"abstract":"those who wished to retain their social privilege despite their newfound democratic principles. Awkward Rituals challenges readers to rethink their assumptions about rituals as sincere, productive, and cohesive. Rather than idealizing ritual as something that always fits the moment, Logan depicts ritual “as an unfashionable set of furniture that societies drag along with them, through revolutions and historical realignments” (9). This opens new questions for scholars of religion in any context about what happens when rituals and ideals do not cohere. Ritual may persist through changing times, but in doing so it can enact old ways of ordering the world, even when ritual actors themselves reject those old ways. Readers of Material Religion will be particularly interested in how Logan makes this argument through attention to sensation. She carefully mines her archival sources to describe what bodies were (or were supposed to be) doing or feeling in particular material contexts. She offers vivid sensory details: the regal fabrics used in masonic costumes, the tears streaming down the immobile face of an ABS subscriber, the mother selecting dinner condiments to regulate her family’s nervous system. At the same time, she resists the impulse to romanticize these sensations into coherence. The awkwardness of these rituals is a feature, not a bug. For those of us concerned with objects, bodies, spaces, and sensations, this book is an example of how we can generatively engage with the ambiguity and contradictions of the material world. At certain points in the book, the difficulties of knowing how historical subjects felt become apparent. Despite Logan’s extensive archives, there are limits to what we can learn about sensation from the archival record. I felt this acutely as I read discussions of benevolent reformers and sovereign mothers interacting with sailors and domestic servants, respectively. Did the sailors and servants experience these interactions as awkward in the same way a twenty first century reader might infer? Similarly, did masons feel awkward looking at the aprons covering their laps or the laps of the men sitting next to them (17)? These slippages occasionally obscured who was defining awkward and whose real or imagined sensations were evoked. Overall, a wide range of scholars will find Awkward Rituals provocative and generative. It would fit well in courses on ritual theory or theory and method in the study of religion, and the chapter on Catharine Beecher could easily stand alone in a women’s studies course. As a scholar of American religion, however, I am excited about how this book might intervene in how we study and teach religion in nineteenth century America. Logan’s work challenges lingering claims about Protestantism and democratization in this period, and it also offers a counterpoint to discussions of white evangelical aesthetics that emphasize enthusiastic melodrama over mundane bureaucracy. Most importantly, in my view, Loga","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"19 1","pages":"204 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43859388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses","authors":"L. Smits","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2023.2221584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2221584","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"19 1","pages":"201 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44702767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making Fatima’s Presence Visible: Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran","authors":"Yafa Shanneik","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2154970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2154970","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Iran has witnessed an increase in cohabitation relationships, or so-called white marriages (izdiwāj-i sifīd), which has caused wide political and religious efforts in cultivating religious selves based on an Islamically defined moral order. This article examines the symbolic re-enactment of the wedding of Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and Ali, the Prophet’s cousin and the first Shiʿi Imam, a ritual which participants use to receive spiritual legitimation for their cohabitation practices. These re-enactments are organized by the Shirazis, the designation given to followers of Muhammad al-Shirazi (1928–2001) and of his brother Sadiq al-Shirazi (b. 1942). Shirazis use the aesthetic enactment of the wedding of Fatima to build an alternative to state-centred structures of domination within Iranian society. Through using the materiality of representations, Shirazis in Iran aim to counter societal changes around sexual relationships and cohabitation practices, which young Iranians use to express political disobedience. Women of this study, however, shared embodied experiences of seeing Fatima and constructed their own collective identity and articulation of political dissensus. Refusing the defined moral order of both the regime as well as the Shirazis, women fight for their politics of recognition by defining their own sexual identities and gender relations.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"19 1","pages":"171 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43242313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}