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Religion, Material Culture, and Archaeology
Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Spiritual versus the Material? -- 2 Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology -- The problematic nature of material culture in studies in religion -- The problematic nature of religi...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=1080382 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Religion, Material Culture, and Archaeology |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Spiritual versus the Material? -- 2 Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology -- The problematic nature of material culture in studies in religion -- The problematic nature of religion in archaeological studies of materiality -- 3 Archaeologies of Religion -- The Marxist and functionalist context -- Archaeology as a social science -- Interpretative archaeology -- 4 Sacred and Profane Landscapes -- Landscape, phenomenology and religion -- The sacred and the profane -- Reflexive religious landscapes -- 5 Archaeology and the Materiality of Religion -- Bibliography -- Index. Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology offers a new understanding of the materiality of religion. By drawing on the field of archaeological theory and method, the relationship between religion and material culture is explored. It is argued that the material elements of religious life have been largely neglected by the discipline of religious studies, while at the same time religion has been traditionally seen as problematic for archaeologists. Why do we not talk of the discipline of the archaeology of religion, in the same way we do the anthropology of religion, or the sociology of religion? The volume considers the historical problems of approaching the material elements of religious life and bridges the methodological gap between religious studies and archaeology by proposing a new way of understanding the materiality of religion ? as active, engaged and projecting a level of autonomous social agency. Finally, the critical examination of archaeological approaches to the materiality of religion is furthered through the consideration of non-archaeological ways of examining the social roles that material culture plays in human life |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (209 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781441184313 |
