Material Religion

Papers
(The median citation count of Material Religion is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hans Belting (1935–2023): Images Beyond “The Era of Art”9
Turku Cathedral Museum: Two Exhibitions Displaying the Material Heritage of the Cathedral5
Paper4
A Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka4
Protestant Relics in Early America3
Crafting to Serve: Craftsmen and Tomb Construction from the 11th to 14th Centuries in China’s Central Plains Region3
Revival and Revolution: Neo-Buddhists in National Museum, New Delhi2
kla: a tutelary deity at the jamaica marketplace in madina, accra2
Introduction: Material Religion in Central and Eastern Europe2
Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom2
Silent Encounters2
Viva George: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border2
Fluid1
Thinking Through Lost Art: Living Newar Buddhist Traditions Between Temple Theft, Repatriation, and Heritage in Nepal1
Passport1
When the Text Draws You In: Literacy Assemblages in a Luxembourgish Synagogue1
To Wear or Not to Wear: Contesting Hijab at the Pentecost Hospital in Madina1
What to call a tlamacazqui? nahuatl and spanish translations in the florentine codex1
The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China1
Material Deposits at Sacred Sites—the Many Faces of Modern Paganism in Estonia1
Devotion in the Home as Private Devotion1
islam and the devotional object: Seeing religion in egypt and syria1
Nourishment1
Roman Domestic Religion: Questions of Transformation and Continuity1
From Balconies to Bedframes: the Home’s Subversive Spiritual Dimensions in Early Modern Venice1
Introduction: On Buddhist Exhibitions and Museums in Asia1
Divine Śakti and Human Power Relations: Studying the Embodied and Enacted Feelings of a Himalayan Hindu Goddess1
The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China1
American religion at The Met Cloisters1
Blood1
Perfume1
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States1
Animal1
Reflections from a “Third Space”: “Politics is What Happens Between Bodies”1
The Hyperreal Sacred: Exploring Buddhist Museums in Taiwan1
Religious Repercussions in Hans Belting’s Anthropology of Images1
A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe1
“When I Dance, I Feel the Earth Under my Feet”: Aesthetics and Material Culture in Swiss Neo-Spiritual Dances1
The Materiality of Turku Cathedral’s Spiritual Treasury: Indulgences0
“Not Built as a Shrine, but as a Sacred Space”: The Devotional Nature of Museums Dedicated to Candidates for Sainthood0
The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters0
On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawai’i in a Belgian museum0
Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India0
Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together0
Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
Doorposts of Inclusion: Trans Pride Mezuzah as a Marker of Jewish-Queer Space0
Vision/s0
Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace0
The Guli: A Shrine of Fluctuating Agencies. Materiality, Spirits and Psychosomatic Experience in the Afro-Amerindian Religion of Dugu0
There is Always Someone in the Storage0
Exhibiting Evangelicalism: Commemoration and Religion’s Presence of the Past; Does Scripture Speak for Itself? The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation0
Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After DarwinWild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin. Donovan O. Schaefer. 2022. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 328 pp. ISBN: 970
In and Out of this World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam0
Illiberal Jewish–Christian Encounters at the Interstices of Gendered Wellness0
Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium0
Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam0
Heritage0
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory0
Ecological Gothic: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden0
The Central Cemetery in Vienna: Past and Present of Muslim Areas0
Abstract art and church membership in the life of a jewish woman: vicci sperry’s paintings0
Machine0
Skin0
Judaism as Flowers: The Materialized Ideology of the New Synagogue of Szeged0
Introduction: on Material and Embodied Power Dynamics and Religion0
On Possibilities for Sensory Research0
A Study of Women’s Religion, Life, and Agency through Guanyin Hairpins in Ming Dynasty China0
Retracted Book Review [Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil]0
Revealing Missionary Entanglements with Religious Objects: Examples from the Museum of Religions, University of Marburg0
Theodicy of Privilege and the Development of a Colossal Buddhist Statue and Art Museum in Post-handover Hong Kong0
Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the Provenance of Egba Material Culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
The Awkward Engagements of Material Religion / "The Stuff of Material Religion"0
Presence and Life in the Work of Hans Belting0
Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media0
The Fate of African Collections in European Museums0
A Gallery of Ghosts: Death and Burial in Lands Marked by Trauma0
Oil0
Time, Materiality, and History in UK-Based Interfaith Solidarity Work0
Ink0
Zombies—Death is Not the End?0
Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant AmericaAwkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America. Dana W. Logan. 2022. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 185 pp., 0
Medicine0
From the Bedroom to the Church, and Back0
Ayahuasca0
Transportation0
Introduction0
Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy0
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late AntiquityGeorgia Frank.2023unfinished Christians: ritual objects and silent subjects in late antiquityPhiladelphia, PA: University of 0
Domestic Religious Objects: Never “Just at Home”0
The Handbook on Religion and Communication0
Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066–13200
Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes! The Material Religion of Footloose0
Reawakening Ancestors, Gods and Spirits: An Investigation into Reconfigurations of “Sacred Space” in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam0
Faith, “Fetish,” and the Making of Kongo Christianity: Missionary Collecting and the Shifting Meanings of Kongo Crucifixes in Late Colonial Northern Angola0
Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition0
Agency, Images, and Visual Culture: the impact of Hans Belting0
Tools of Magic – Ritual Handling and Human-Thing Entanglement in 19th-Century Finland0
The making of faith: human intentions and material influences in the orthodox christian practice of iconography0
Kolonya Renaissance: Disinfection, Healing, and the Role of Eau de Cologne during the early COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and its Diaspora0
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist0
AI0
dining with Russian Old Believers: guesthood, gender roles and rules of ritual purity0
Circulation0
Teaching Research Skills Through the Study of Religious Objects at Home0
Material Culture, Experimentation, and Household Lighting in Early Rabbinic Judaism0
Making Fatima’s Presence Visible: Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran0
Key Terms for Material Religion 20250
Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin’s House of One0
Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga0
beautiful and precarious female dummies in madina0
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History0
In-between: Studying Lived Plurality from the Interstice0
The Medieval Mediterranean Between Islam and Christianity: Cross-Pollinations in Art, Architecture and Material Culture0
Exhibiting the Mission: Display Lives of the Utrecht Missionary Society Collection0
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation0
Conceptions of Divinity: Statue Making in Contemporary Taiwan and the Ritual of Embedding the Spirit ( Rushen )0
Masterpieces for Popular Devotion. The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)0
Embodied Wearing: clothing for Artemis in Ancient Athenian Religion 10
Eating Ashure on Ashura: Gastro-Politics and Intra-Muslim Relations in Contemporary Turkey0
Betrayal | Resistance, Central Methodist Mission, Cape Town, South Africa0
Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:” Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary0
Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion0
Review ofOmar, la Opera–Outlooks Series, Material Religion0
pig trotters in madina market0
Original Copies: the Newest Reproductions of the Shroud of Turin0
Materializing Nostalgia: Feet, Youtube, and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela0
Human0
Secular0
Beneath the Hermit’s Hut: on Ascetic Burial and the Possibility of Hindu Relics0
Spirits in the Museum0
Dynamic Domestic Devotion: Pipe-Clay Images Moving Through the Home in the Late Medieval Low Countries0
Material Change: The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-19200
Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California0
The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract0
The Bible in Photography: Index, Icon, Tableau, Vision0
The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana’s Drum Wars0
Mary, Queen of Style: Catholic Modest Fashion in Midcentury America0
Tattoos and Sonic Imitation: Mantras, Body Tuning and Tattooing as Sounding0
Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display0
Beyond the Storehouse: The Case of an Early Buddhist Temple Museum in Japan0
Converted Gods: Lives and Travels of Asante Abosom and Asuman Figures0
On Time and Interreligious Materiality – A Postcard from Slavonia0
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America0
Sacred0
Estonian-Finnish Art Connections in the Middle Ages and the Bells of Turku Cathedral0
When does History Begin? Religion, Narrative, and Identity in the Sikh Tradition0
Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage0
Introduction: Bringing Religion Home0
Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities0
Eternity in the Ether: a Mormon Media History0
Modalities of co-existence in madina, ghana0
First Knowledges Collection Box Set Series0
Retraction Statement [Regarding the Book Review of "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" by Rodrigo Toniol]0
Plastic(s)0
Light0
Aesthetics, Kinaesthetics, and Taste in Contrasting Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Initiatives0
Underground Bath Museum in Baku: A Brief Reflection on the Material and Immaterial Dimensions of Purification0
Religious Materialities, Aesthetics, and Protests in Urban Poland: Religious Icons and the Re-Emergence of Civil Society0
Feeling Material Culture: Affect, Power, Sensation0
Decay0
Etched in Stone: Shaligrams as Object-Texts0
Bones0
Divine Trust ( Amana ) and Climate Change in Jordan: Valuing Water in the Face of Water Scarcity0
Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America0
Ritual0
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity0
Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North0
Seekers, Seers and Soothsayers: Artistic Mediations of the Nonphysical World0
Paper Icons and Fasting Bodies: The Esthetic Formations of Serbian Orthodoxy0
Material Disruptions in the Rabbinic Landscape0
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds0
From Objects to Larger Material Structures / From Belief to Practices0
Making the Gods Speak: the Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
Inventoried Sacred: Reliquaries in Nordic Church Treasuries0
Illumination0
Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)0
Contemporary Sikh Domestic Practices in Italy0
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion that Matters0
Unpacking Missionary Collections0
Authority with Textual Materials – Power of the Written Qur’an0
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race0
Representing Muhammad: The Prophet on Screen0
Zhunti and Juntei: a Study of the Zhunti Mantra Sheet at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston0
Thing0
Curating Commonality: Multimodal Materialities of Intercommunal Northern African Heritage0
Cosmic Calligraphy and Character Physiognomy 相字 in Late Imperial China0
The Curious Case of the Condom: How the Secular Matters in the Netherlands0
Depositing All Their Joys and Sorrows at Their Feet. The Emotional Weight of Devotional Objects in the Home0
Vitality and Vestige: Notes on Domestication0
Making Memory Matter: claiming Place and Belonging in Johannesburg and Nairobi0
Material Religion, Material Religion , and the Matter of Critique: On “Belief” / The Art of What Fits in the Headline: On “Art”0
Material in text, text in material: a tamil christian lullaby0
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the SensesFigures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses. Niklaus Largier. 2022. Stanford:0
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