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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Material Inventories of Millennial Jewish Lives: Affective Learning and Jewish Consumer Culture at the National Museum of American Jewish History Gift Shop6
Turku Cathedral Museum: Two Exhibitions Displaying the Material Heritage of the Cathedral6
Hans Belting (1935–2023): Images Beyond “The Era of Art”5
Helgonskåp. Medieval Tabernacle Shrines in Sweden and EuropeHelgonskåp. Medieval Tabernacle Shrines in Sweden and Europe. Justin Kroesen and Peter Tångeberg. 2021. Peterberg, Germany : Michael Imhof ,4
Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom4
Post-Secular Art for a Post-Secular Age: Stational Installations of the Via Dolorosa in Western cities3
kla: a tutelary deity at the jamaica marketplace in madina, accra3
Crafting to Serve: Craftsmen and Tomb Construction from the 11th to 14th Centuries in China’s Central Plains Region3
Viva George: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border3
Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, ArizonaRipples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona. Susannah Crockford, 2021. University of Chicago Press. 249 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-226-7783
Revival and Revolution: Neo-Buddhists in National Museum, New Delhi2
material religion and artificial intelligence2
Thinking Through Lost Art: Living Newar Buddhist Traditions Between Temple Theft, Repatriation, and Heritage in Nepal2
Coexisting in Color2
Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany2
Introduction: Material Religion in Central and Eastern Europe2
Silent Encounters2
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States1
Postcards from the Convent1
The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris.1
artificial intelligence and religion: between existing ai and grand narratives1
American religion at The Met Cloisters1
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn1
The Hyperreal Sacred: Exploring Buddhist Museums in Taiwan1
A Veterans’ Talking Circle: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Re-Indigenizing Places1
Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel1
“When I Dance, I Feel the Earth Under my Feet”: Aesthetics and Material Culture in Swiss Neo-Spiritual Dances1
When the Text Draws You In: Literacy Assemblages in a Luxembourgish Synagogue1
The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China1
Material Deposits at Sacred Sites—the Many Faces of Modern Paganism in Estonia1
Divine Śakti and Human Power Relations: Studying the Embodied and Enacted Feelings of a Himalayan Hindu Goddess1
Introduction: On Buddhist Exhibitions and Museums in Asia1
The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China1
To Wear or Not to Wear: Contesting Hijab at the Pentecost Hospital in Madina1
“How Dare Men Mix up the Bible so with Their Own Bad Passions”: When the Good Book Became the Bad Book in the American Civil War1
islam and the devotional object: Seeing religion in egypt and syria1
Reflections from a “Third Space”: “Politics is What Happens Between Bodies”1
What to call a tlamacazqui? nahuatl and spanish translations in the florentine codex1
A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe1
Printing Infidelity: Watson Heston and the Making of the Impressionable Freethinking Subject, 1873–19001
Religious Repercussions in Hans Belting’s Anthropology of Images1
when sound becomes an image: picturingoṃin jainism0
Masterpieces for Popular Devotion. The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)0
The Objects That Remain0
Embodied Wearing: clothing for Artemis in Ancient Athenian Religion 10
ASH: Memorializing the 2021 University of Cape Town Library Fire0
Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam0
From Objects to Larger Material Structures / From Belief to Practices0
When does History Begin? Religion, Narrative, and Identity in the Sikh Tradition0
The making of faith: human intentions and material influences in the orthodox christian practice of iconography0
Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)0
Cosmic Calligraphy and Character Physiognomy 相字 in Late Imperial China0
When the Medium was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture When the Medium was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of0
pig trotters in madina market0
Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:” Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary0
sounding the voice of tolerance: the orò secret society at the yorùbá borderlands0
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
Eternity in the Ether: a Mormon Media History0
Curating Commonality: Multimodal Materialities of Intercommunal Northern African Heritage0
painted pomegranates and needlepoint rabbis: how jews craft resilience and create community0
The Bible in Photography: Index, Icon, Tableau, Vision0
Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace0
Divine Trust ( Amana ) and Climate Change in Jordan: Valuing Water in the Face of Water Scarcity0
Etched in Stone: Shaligrams as Object-Texts0
Ecological Gothic: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden0
Material in text, text in material: a tamil christian lullaby0
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
Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together0
On Time and Interreligious Materiality – A Postcard from Slavonia0
Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities0
Belonging to (Not “in”) Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events0
The Art of Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural NarrativesThe Art of Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural Narratives. Heidi J.Hornik, IanBoxall, and BobbiDykema0
On Possibilities for Sensory Research0
Faith, “Fetish,” and the Making of Kongo Christianity: Missionary Collecting and the Shifting Meanings of Kongo Crucifixes in Late Colonial Northern Angola0
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds0
Betrayal | Resistance, Central Methodist Mission, Cape Town, South Africa0
The Guli: A Shrine of Fluctuating Agencies. Materiality, Spirits and Psychosomatic Experience in the Afro-Amerindian Religion of Dugu0
The Politics and Poetics of O’odham Categories of Movement: Movement in Discourse and Practice0
Aesthetics, Kinaesthetics, and Taste in Contrasting Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Initiatives0
Zhunti and Juntei: a Study of the Zhunti Mantra Sheet at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston0
Religious Materialities, Aesthetics, and Protests in Urban Poland: Religious Icons and the Re-Emergence of Civil Society0
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race0
Nothing to Declare… Apart from Holy Water: Sacralizing Borders and Securitizing Spiritual Things in Fiji0
Pilgrimage as Peoplehood: Indigenous Relations and Self-Determination at Places of Catholic Pilgrimage in Mi’kma’ki and the Métis Homeland0
Doorposts of Inclusion: Trans Pride Mezuzah as a Marker of Jewish-Queer Space0
Revealing Missionary Entanglements with Religious Objects: Examples from the Museum of Religions, University of Marburg0
beautiful and precarious female dummies in madina0
The Buddha’s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic0
The Curious Case of the Condom: How the Secular Matters in the Netherlands0
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History0
Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the Provenance of Egba Material Culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission0
Converted Gods: Lives and Travels of Asante Abosom and Asuman Figures0
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation0
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice0
The Fate of African Collections in European Museums0
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
Finding “Rhythm” on Catholic eBay0
Conceptions of Divinity: Statue Making in Contemporary Taiwan and the Ritual of Embedding the Spirit ( Rushen )0
Islam Through Objects0
Review ofOmar, la Opera–Outlooks Series, Material Religion0
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
Judaism as Flowers: The Materialized Ideology of the New Synagogue of Szeged0
Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition0
Mary, Queen of Style: Catholic Modest Fashion in Midcentury America0
Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience Imagining Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience . Edited by Kathryn R Barush. 2021. Bloomsbury, 261 pp., ISBN: 9780
A Gallery of Ghosts: Death and Burial in Lands Marked by Trauma0
A Study of Women’s Religion, Life, and Agency through Guanyin Hairpins in Ming Dynasty China0
Material Change: The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-19200
The Sacred Cowshed Tree in Urban Hanoi: A Home for Unredeemed Souls0
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist0
Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin’s House of One0
Introduction: on Material and Embodied Power Dynamics and Religion0
Introduction0
First Knowledges Collection Box Set Series0
An Image of the Holy City in the Holy Land ‘Atlit Castle Chapel0
Editorial Note0
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion that Matters0
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
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
Mobility, Relationality, and the Decolonizing of Religious Studies: A Response to the Special Issue0
The Materiality of Turku Cathedral’s Spiritual Treasury: Indulgences0
Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape0
Estonian-Finnish Art Connections in the Middle Ages and the Bells of Turku Cathedral0
eBay Method and the Study of Religion0
Spirits in the Museum0
Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage0
Unpacking Missionary Collections0
There is Always Someone in the Storage0
Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion0
Paper Icons and Fasting Bodies: The Esthetic Formations of Serbian Orthodoxy0
Tools of Magic – Ritual Handling and Human-Thing Entanglement in 19th-Century Finland0
Inventoried Sacred: Reliquaries in Nordic Church Treasuries0
Making the Gods Speak: the Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract0
Feeling Material Culture: Affect, Power, Sensation0
Francis of Assisi’s Perfect Jouissance: Theorizing Conversion through Objects and Affects in Early Franciscan Fragments0
Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066–13200
Materiality of Seclusion: A Decorated Monastic Hermitage in the Dead Sea Escarpment0
Illiberal Jewish–Christian Encounters at the Interstices of Gendered Wellness0
The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters0
Presence and Life in the Work of Hans Belting0
Time, Materiality, and History in UK-Based Interfaith Solidarity Work0
Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California0
Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World . Edited by Leah Elizabeth Comeau. 2020. London, Bloomsbury206 pp., IS0
The Central Cemetery in Vienna: Past and Present of Muslim Areas0
Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy0
Cool Christianity: The Fashion-Celebrity-Megachurch Industrial Complex0
Representing Muhammad: The Prophet on Screen0
Theodicy of Privilege and the Development of a Colossal Buddhist Statue and Art Museum in Post-handover Hong Kong0
The Handbook on Religion and Communication0
Original Copies: the Newest Reproductions of the Shroud of Turin0
Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil0
Reawakening Ancestors, Gods and Spirits: An Investigation into Reconfigurations of “Sacred Space” in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam0
Authority with Textual Materials – Power of the Written Qur’an0
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America0
religion <–> robotics0
Movement and Indigenous Religions: A Reconsideration of Mobile Ways of Knowing and Being0
Agency, Images, and Visual Culture: the impact of Hans Belting0
Putin’s Descent: Iconography of the Last Judgment and Politics in Contemporary Ukraine0
Material Disruptions in the Rabbinic Landscape0
Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North0
Walking the Law throughout the Journey of Nishiyuu0
“Not Built as a Shrine, but as a Sacred Space”: The Devotional Nature of Museums Dedicated to Candidates for Sainthood0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
In-between: Studying Lived Plurality from the Interstice0
Beyond the Storehouse: The Case of an Early Buddhist Temple Museum in Japan0
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity0
Kolonya Renaissance: Disinfection, Healing, and the Role of Eau de Cologne during the early COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and its Diaspora0
Visions of Contempt: Emotion and the Visual Culture of the Scopes Trial0
Re-Assembling Fairs: eBay, Circulation, and Value0
Tattoos and Sonic Imitation: Mantras, Body Tuning and Tattooing as Sounding0
Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India0
Material Religion, Material Religion , and the Matter of Critique: On “Belief” / The Art of What Fits in the Headline: On “Art”0
In and Out of this World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam0
Seekers, Seers and Soothsayers: Artistic Mediations of the Nonphysical World0
On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawai’i in a Belgian museum0
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory0
Exhibiting the Mission: Display Lives of the Utrecht Missionary Society Collection0
Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
My Poison Rosary: On eBay and Desire0
dining with Russian Old Believers: guesthood, gender roles and rules of ritual purity0
Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media0
Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga0
Materializing Nostalgia: Feet, Youtube, and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela0
Modalities of co-existence in madina, ghana0
Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium0
Sounds of Children in Worship: Materiality and Liturgical-Ritual Spaces0
Material Culture, Experimentation, and Household Lighting in Early Rabbinic Judaism0
Conversations Elevated: On High Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains. In Conversation with Constanza Ceruti0
The Awkward Engagements of Material Religion / "The Stuff of Material Religion"0
Making Fatima’s Presence Visible: Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran0
Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes! The Material Religion of Footloose0
Sensing Sacred Texts0
Exploring the Atmosphere Inside a Liturgical Laboratory0
negotiating the sounds of born-again christianity: aesthetic provocations in western ethiopia0
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