By Tracy Pintchman,Corinne G. Dempsey
Sacred Matters explores the lives of fabric items in South Asian religions. Spanning a variety of traditions together with Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the ebook demonstrates how sacred goods effect and brighten up the worlds of spiritual contributors throughout South Asia and into the diaspora. individuals learn quite a few items to explain the methods sacred fabrics derive and confer that means and efficacy, rising from and giving form to spiritual and nonreligious geographical regions alike. fabric sorts of deity and divine energy are thought of in addition to normal ritual goods, together with photos, clay pots, and camphor. The paintings additionally attends to materiality’s advanced position in the “materially suspicious” contexts of Islam, Theravada Buddhism, and Roman Catholicism. This enticing assortment provides new frameworks for considering the ways that old, social, and sacred techniques intertwine and jointly form human and divine activity.
Tracy Pintchman is Professor of non secular experiences and Director of the foreign stories application at Loyola college Chicago. Her books contain The upward thrust of the Goddess within the Hindu Tradition and Guests at God’s marriage ceremony: Celebrating Kartik one of the girls of Benares, either released via SUNY Press.
Corinne G. Dempsey is affiliate Professor of spiritual experiences at Nazareth collage. She is the writer of Bringing the Sacred all the way down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion and The Goddess Lives in Upstate manhattan: Breaking conference and Making domestic at a North American Hindu Temple.
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