Material Religion in Modern Britain

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.

'Material Religion in Modern Britain makes an important contribution to the history of British religion, breaking new ground in its focus upon material culture as a means by which to understand the tensions and complexities of the modern spiritual landscape. This is a very well-crafted and insightful collection of essays which will certainly deepen our understanding of the influence of material culture upon modern religious beliefs and practices.' - Sue Morgan, University of Chichester, UK

Autorentext
Joe Webster, Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK Ann Wilson, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Timothy Carroll, University College London, UK Jim Cheshire, University of Lincoln, UK Kate Jordan, University College London, UK Dominic Janes, Birkbeck, University of London, UK James G. Mansell, University of Nottingham, UK John Harvey, Aberystwyth University, UK Jill Sudbury, University of Oxford, UK Amy Whitehead, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK Candace Hoffman-Hussain, Lancaster University, UK Richard Irvine, University of Cambridge, UK Crispin Paine, University College London, UK Jacqueline R. deVries, Augsburg College, USA

Inhalt
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