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Religious Statues and Personhood

Testing the Role of Materiality [Paperback]

by Amy Whitehead

    • Author

      Amy Whitehead

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Published

      March 2015

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    Objects such as statues and icons have long been problematic in the study of religion, especially in European Christianities. Through examining two groups, the contemporary Pagan Glastonbury Goddess religion in the Southwest of England and a cult of the Virgin Mary in Andalusia, Spain, Amy Whitehead asserts that objects can be more than representational or symbolic. In the context of increasing academic interest in materiality in religions and cultures, she shows how statues, or 'things', are not always interacted with as if they are inert material against which we typically define ourselves as 'modern' humans. Bringing two distinct cultures and religions into tension, animism and 'the fetish' are used as ways in which to think about how humans interact with religious statues in Western Europe and beyond. Both theoretical and descriptive, the book illustrates how religions and cultural practices can be re-examined as performances that necessarily involve not only human persons, but also objects.

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    • Author

      Amy Whitehead

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Published

      March 2015

    • Weight

      309g

    • Page Count

      216

    • Dimensions

      156 x 234 x 12 mm

    • ISBN

      9781474228565

    • ISBN-10

      1474228569

    • Eden Code

      4305945

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    • Author/Creator: Amy Whitehead

    • ISBN: 9781474228565

    • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Release Date: March 2015

    • Weight: 309g

    • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 12 mm

    • Eden Code: 4305945


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