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{"title":"Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North","authors":"Visa Immonen, M. Räsänen","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2132070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2132070","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article provides an introduction to medieval treasuries, or collections of objects in churches, in Northern Europe. Particularly cathedral treasuries offer a significant material assemblage from the Middle Ages, and consequently an essential perspective on the complex relationships between objects, matter, and religious practice. We discuss the definitions of the “North,” and “treasury,” and as a case study, describe the history and research potential of the medieval treasury in Turku Cathedral, Finland.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"501 - 511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48928986","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":"Turku Cathedral Museum: Two Exhibitions Displaying the Material Heritage of the Cathedral","authors":"Hanna Pirinen","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2132069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2132069","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of the study is to consider Turku Cathedral Museum, founded in 1929 and reopened in 1982, from a museographical perspective, and to differentiate its spatial structuring and display types with relation to the ecclesiastical museum exhibitions of its time. The exhibitions are interpreted within the context of material heritage and its temporality. The museological value of each object can be shown to constitute an epistemological basis that links exhibition designers Juhani Rinne and Riitta Pylkkänen, who belong to different scholarly generations. The first exhibition of 1929 consisted of artifacts such as medieval sculptures, liturgical textiles, and vessels, as well as documentary objects such as miniature scale models and drawings that illustrated the church’s architectural construction. Numerous exhibits consisted of finds from the archaeological excavations that were conducted during the 1920s as part of the building’s restoration works. Assisted by a guidebook, visitors were able to make individual guided tours through the exhibition, which was situated in the cathedral’s south gallery and in its chapels. The exhibition closed in 1960, and the artifacts were placed in storage. The museum opened again, after a complete renovation, in 1982, keeping its position in the south gallery. Items were presented primarily within protected display cases, and the exhibition featured a greater number of textiles, silverware, and liturgical objects dating from a period of several centuries. Modern, technical solutions were developed to ensure that objects were maintained in conditions suitable for their preservation. It was decided that the most fragile and delicate textiles would be kept apart within a research collection.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"564 - 583"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46570618","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":"Paper Icons and Fasting Bodies: The Esthetic Formations of Serbian Orthodoxy","authors":"N. Lackenby","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2102855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2102855","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing on ethnographic data from central Serbia, the article uses the concept of “esthetic formations” to consider how divergent expressions of Orthodox Christianity intersect in postsocialist space. The majority of Serbs identify as “Orthodox” and Orthodox imagery pervades the public sphere—but only a minority engage concertedly with liturgical practice. Through their regular fasting and churchgoing such self-identifying “believers” embody an Orthodox esthetic which is at once connected to—and yet distinct from—the overarching Orthodox cultural context. Whilst for churchgoers such embodiment represents sincerity and commitment, for many others it represents fanaticism and excessive piety. Overall, the article makes two claims. First, that “esthetic formations” are not internally rigid and that esthetics can divide as much as they unite. Second, that embodied esthetics allow different actors to articulate different moral claims about what constitutes sincere Orthodox practice.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"391 - 411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46024281","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":"American religion at The Met Cloisters","authors":"Rachel B. Gross","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2102849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2102849","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article traces the religious history of The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to medieval European architecture and art in northern Manhattan, providing a case study of how Americans have used images of the medieval to articulate a moralistic American spirituality. It focuses on particular moments in the museum’s history—the 1914 museum created by sculptor George Grey Barnard; the 1938 opening of The Met Cloisters, funded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; its reception in the mid-twentieth century; a series of Episcopal Masses in the 1970s; and the spring 2018 exhibit Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination—in order to unpack and contextualize the changes and constants in the visual vocabulary of religion at this museum. Throughout the twentieth century, founders, donors, curators, critics, and visitors saw a “right” way to respond emotionally to The Cloisters. One’s response to the museum demonstrated not only one’s sensitivity but also one’s character, especially the moral superiority of elite white Protestant men. In the twenty-first century, the design of Heavenly Bodies and its reception both drew upon and pushed back against the masculine Protestant paradigm of American medievalism that had long been established at The Cloisters.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"459 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48337063","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":"islam and the devotional object: Seeing religion in egypt and syria","authors":"Adam Bursi","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2109885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2109885","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"499 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44823161","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":"dining with Russian Old Believers: guesthood, gender roles and rules of ritual purity","authors":"Danila Rygovskiy","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2097568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2097568","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper discusses religious restrictions of the Old Believers, a group within Russian Orthodox Christianity. In particular, I refer to communities of the Chasovenny faction in Siberia. These Old Believers are supposed to eat separately from anyone who does not belong to the group and to use tableware (the so-called “fine bowls”) that are not shared with anyone except community members to avoid defilement. I observe my own field experiences as a guest in these communities, in which the practice of separation is often performed ad hoc. I argue that, despite seeming to establish strict isolation from non-Old Believers, the rule of separate tableware is more important for structuring social relations within the group than for drawing boundary lines between different confessions. I also focus on the gendered aspects of this practice. Maintenance of ritual purity concerns both women and men, but it is represented in their lives differently. The rule requires women to keep profound knowledge of dogmas and local community practices because this is important for supporting other aspects of group religious and social life.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"412 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45435584","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":"beautiful and precarious female dummies in madina","authors":"Kauthar Khamis","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2111114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2111114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"496 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47482735","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":"pig trotters in madina market","authors":"rashida alhassan adum-Atta","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2111108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2111108","url":null,"abstract":"Madina market is an important socio-cultural space for interreligious encounters between Muslims, Christians and traditionalists. There are multiple levels on which people with these different religious (and ethnic) backgrounds coexist and negotiate the tangible presence of the religious other. One salient matter of concern are pig trotters, which reach the market through a global network of multinational meat processors and merchants mainly from Europe. While the presence of pork a food ingredient deemed haram by Muslims in Madina market has not deterred Muslims from visiting the market, it has made some Muslim traders and clients to draw boundaries. How is a food ingredient as pig feet negotiated in multi-religious and multi-ethnic Madina? Pig trotter is the culinary term used to refer to the feet of pigs. It is present at the Madina market because of a constant demand for them. Trotters are described as a tasty ingredient for soups and stews. There are several local terms for them, such as nane, prekonkwere, kotodwe, bra chars (Charles) and domido. Pig trotters of about 70 to 90 pieces are packaged in a barrel that weighs 90 kg, with a concentrate of brine as a preservative. Trotter traders display the pig feet on trays, ensuring that it is visible to passers-by. For example, Auntie Abigail, one of my interlocutors, sells trotters at the Madina market. Approaching her stall, pig trotters are displayed on an aluminum tray, placed on an elevated plastic platform to display the trotters to make it more glaring or visible to patrons far and near. Auntie Abigail describes the plastic platform’s support for elevation as:","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"492 - 493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48816511","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":"kla: a tutelary deity at the jamaica marketplace in madina, accra","authors":"J. fosu-ankrah","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2111102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2111102","url":null,"abstract":"This essay deals with the La (Ga) indigenous religious ritual of planting a traditional deity in a newly established marketplace in Madina, a peri-urban and a multireligious area in Accra, Ghana. The relation of this deity to the market is to ensure peaceful coexistence between traders as well as protection of the marketplace. The La people are inhabitants of one of the six indepen-dent towns that constitute the Ga ethnic group. The principal town of the La people is Labadi (La), and Madina is built on La traditional land. Madina is a multireligious and multiethnic neighbourhood, with Muslims, Christians and Traditionalists. While African traditional religious practices are pushed to the margins, they still play a central, albeit often overlooked, role regarding land issues.","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"488 - 491"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49065630","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":"Modalities of co-existence in madina, ghana","authors":"B. Meyer, S. Ntewusu","doi":"10.1080/17432200.2022.2111095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2111095","url":null,"abstract":"Madina is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious neighborhood in the North of Ghana’s capital Accra. It is situated on the territory of the Ga-people, whose open attitude towards hosting strangers on their land has been central for generating wealth. The name Madina (Arabic for city) emerged in the 1950s, when a substantial number of Muslims from Northern Ghana started to settle in the area (Ntewusu 2020). Before then the community was known as Nkwantanang, meaning cross-roads or junction in Akan. While Muslims form the majority of the more than 135.00 inhabitants that populate Madina today, there are also many Christians, as well as practitioners of African indigenous religion. With many inhabitants coming from other African countries and goods on offer from many parts of the world, Madina has a cosmopolitan vibe. Religion is virtually omnipresent, through buildings, images and sounds. Madina offers a fascinating case to study modalities of co-existence across religious, ethnic and other differences. How do people of different religious backgrounds manage to live more or less peacefully in the same place? Our Madina research project investigates such modalities at the level of everyday life. Our research shows that it would be mistaken to think about religious and ethnic groups as separate, bounded entities that subsequently coexist with each other. Instead we conceptualize Madina as a place in which its inhabitants are entangled in multiple ways, negotiating their own goals, practices and identities in the light of the presence of others. This approach has yielded four dissertation research projects that focus on the in-between spaces in which such negotiations take place. Here the materiality of religion is of crucial importance, both conceptually and methodologically. Matters such as the shrine of a deity in the midst of the market, the presence of pork, the wearing of hijab or the display of a white naked dummy in front of a beauty salon trigger debate, moving people out of their comfort zone. The four essays presented in this section unpack modalities of co-existence through their respective research sites. Joseph Fifii Fosu-Ankrah shows that, notwithstanding Muslims’ and Christians’ dismissal of indigenous African religion, they cannot help but accept the ‘planting’ of the Kla deity which is the spiritual guardian of a newly built market; both traders and customers must obey the regulations that organize human relations in the market. Focusing on the sale of pig feet— haram for Muslims—that are imported from Europe into the Madina market, Rashida Alhassan Adum-Atta unpacks how Muslims develop strategies of keeping distance and avoidance with regard to the, for them, disgusting presence of trotter. Studying how a Pentecostal hospital situates itself in a majority Muslim neighborhood, Martin Luther Darko focuses on the hijab. It forms a major bone of contention, as a new hospital policy denies Muslim nurses the right to wear it, thereby raising ","PeriodicalId":18273,"journal":{"name":"Material Religion","volume":"18 1","pages":"486 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47615141","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}