Material Religion

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hans Belting (1935–2023): Images Beyond “The Era of Art”9
Turku Cathedral Museum: Two Exhibitions Displaying the Material Heritage of the Cathedral5
A Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka4
Paper4
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 ,3
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
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: 978-0-226-7782
Viva George: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border2
Silent Encounters2
Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom2
Thinking Through Lost Art: Living Newar Buddhist Traditions Between Temple Theft, Repatriation, and Heritage in Nepal2
Introduction: Material Religion in Central and Eastern Europe2
kla: a tutelary deity at the jamaica marketplace in madina, accra2
Blood1
“When I Dance, I Feel the Earth Under my Feet”: Aesthetics and Material Culture in Swiss Neo-Spiritual Dances1
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States1
Perfume1
The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China1
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
AI1
To Wear or Not to Wear: Contesting Hijab at the Pentecost Hospital in Madina1
Fluid1
Nourishment1
Passport1
Material Deposits at Sacred Sites—the Many Faces of Modern Paganism in Estonia1
The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China1
What to call a tlamacazqui? nahuatl and spanish translations in the florentine codex1
Religious Repercussions in Hans Belting’s Anthropology of Images1
Tools of Magic – Ritual Handling and Human-Thing Entanglement in 19th-Century Finland1
When the Text Draws You In: Literacy Assemblages in a Luxembourgish Synagogue1
islam and the devotional object: Seeing religion in egypt and syria1
Animal1
Reflections from a “Third Space”: “Politics is What Happens Between Bodies”1
Nothing to Declare… Apart from Holy Water: Sacralizing Borders and Securitizing Spiritual Things in Fiji1
American religion at The Met Cloisters1
The Hyperreal Sacred: Exploring Buddhist Museums in Taiwan1
Light1
A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe1
Faith, “Fetish,” and the Making of Kongo Christianity: Missionary Collecting and the Shifting Meanings of Kongo Crucifixes in Late Colonial Northern Angola0
Converted Gods: Lives and Travels of Asante Abosom and Asuman Figures0
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America0
Machine0
Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media0
Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
The making of faith: human intentions and material influences in the orthodox christian practice of iconography0
The Handbook on Religion and Communication0
Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities0
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
Aesthetics, Kinaesthetics, and Taste in Contrasting Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Initiatives0
Reawakening Ancestors, Gods and Spirits: An Investigation into Reconfigurations of “Sacred Space” in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam0
Retraction Statement [Regarding the Book Review of "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" by Rodrigo Toniol]0
Materializing Nostalgia: Feet, Youtube, and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela0
Etched in Stone: Shaligrams as Object-Texts0
Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together0
Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)0
Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North0
Key Terms for Material Religion 20250
Original Copies: the Newest Reproductions of the Shroud of Turin0
Ritual0
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
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
Material Disruptions in the Rabbinic Landscape0
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion that Matters0
A Gallery of Ghosts: Death and Burial in Lands Marked by Trauma0
Materiality of Seclusion: A Decorated Monastic Hermitage in the Dead Sea Escarpment0
First Knowledges Collection Box Set Series0
Thing0
Underground Bath Museum in Baku: A Brief Reflection on the Material and Immaterial Dimensions of Purification0
Inventoried Sacred: Reliquaries in Nordic Church Treasuries0
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory0
The Sacred Cowshed Tree in Urban Hanoi: A Home for Unredeemed Souls0
Introduction0
An Image of the Holy City in the Holy Land ‘Atlit Castle Chapel0
Revealing Missionary Entanglements with Religious Objects: Examples from the Museum of Religions, University of Marburg0
The Curious Case of the Condom: How the Secular Matters in the Netherlands0
“Not Built as a Shrine, but as a Sacred Space”: The Devotional Nature of Museums Dedicated to Candidates for Sainthood0
Seekers, Seers and Soothsayers: Artistic Mediations of the Nonphysical World0
pig trotters in madina market0
Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the Provenance of Egba Material Culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission0
A Study of Women’s Religion, Life, and Agency through Guanyin Hairpins in Ming Dynasty China0
Zhunti and Juntei: a Study of the Zhunti Mantra Sheet at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston0
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
Estonian-Finnish Art Connections in the Middle Ages and the Bells of Turku Cathedral0
Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy0
Paper Icons and Fasting Bodies: The Esthetic Formations of Serbian Orthodoxy0
Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga0
Conceptions of Divinity: Statue Making in Contemporary Taiwan and the Ritual of Embedding the Spirit ( Rushen )0
In and Out of this World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam0
Doorposts of Inclusion: Trans Pride Mezuzah as a Marker of Jewish-Queer Space0
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
Retracted Book Review [Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil]0
Heritage0
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
Making the Gods Speak: the Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
Sacred0
Vision/s0
Illumination0
Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066–13200
Illiberal Jewish–Christian Encounters at the Interstices of Gendered Wellness0
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
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
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race0
Ecological Gothic: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden0
Agency, Images, and Visual Culture: the impact of Hans Belting0
beautiful and precarious female dummies in madina0
Introduction: on Material and Embodied Power Dynamics and Religion0
The Central Cemetery in Vienna: Past and Present of Muslim Areas0
Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience Imagining Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience . Edited by Kathryn R Barush. 2021. Bloomsbury, 261 pp., ISBN: 9780
Skin0
From Objects to Larger Material Structures / From Belief to Practices0
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist0
Material Culture, Experimentation, and Household Lighting in Early Rabbinic Judaism0
Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:” Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary0
Review ofOmar, la Opera–Outlooks Series, Material Religion0
Spirits in the Museum0
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History0
Mary, Queen of Style: Catholic Modest Fashion in Midcentury America0
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
Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin’s House of One0
Medicine0
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds0
The Materiality of Turku Cathedral’s Spiritual Treasury: Indulgences0
Beyond the Storehouse: The Case of an Early Buddhist Temple Museum in Japan0
Abstract art and church membership in the life of a jewish woman: vicci sperry’s paintings0
Circulation0
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity0
Tattoos and Sonic Imitation: Mantras, Body Tuning and Tattooing as Sounding0
Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition0
On Possibilities for Sensory Research0
Authority with Textual Materials – Power of the Written Qur’an0
Unpacking Missionary Collections0
Religious Materialities, Aesthetics, and Protests in Urban Poland: Religious Icons and the Re-Emergence of Civil Society0
Zombies—Death is Not the End?0
Ayahuasca0
On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawai’i in a Belgian museum0
Material Religion, Material Religion , and the Matter of Critique: On “Belief” / The Art of What Fits in the Headline: On “Art”0
Cosmic Calligraphy and Character Physiognomy 相字 in Late Imperial China0
Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America0
Transportation0
Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage0
Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium0
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
Human0
Exhibiting the Mission: Display Lives of the Utrecht Missionary Society Collection0
Modalities of co-existence in madina, ghana0
dining with Russian Old Believers: guesthood, gender roles and rules of ritual purity0
Decay0
Kolonya Renaissance: Disinfection, Healing, and the Role of Eau de Cologne during the early COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and its Diaspora0
The Awkward Engagements of Material Religion / "The Stuff of Material Religion"0
Representing Muhammad: The Prophet on Screen0
Bones0
When does History Begin? Religion, Narrative, and Identity in the Sikh Tradition0
Feeling Material Culture: Affect, Power, Sensation0
Time, Materiality, and History in UK-Based Interfaith Solidarity Work0
In-between: Studying Lived Plurality from the Interstice0
Eternity in the Ether: a Mormon Media History0
Presence and Life in the Work of Hans Belting0
Making Fatima’s Presence Visible: Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran0
There is Always Someone in the Storage0
The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters0
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation0
Theodicy of Privilege and the Development of a Colossal Buddhist Statue and Art Museum in Post-handover Hong Kong0
Eating Ashure on Ashura: Gastro-Politics and Intra-Muslim Relations in Contemporary Turkey0
Oil0
Conversations Elevated: On High Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains. In Conversation with Constanza Ceruti0
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
Curating Commonality: Multimodal Materialities of Intercommunal Northern African Heritage0
Making Memory Matter: claiming Place and Belonging in Johannesburg and Nairobi0
Judaism as Flowers: The Materialized Ideology of the New Synagogue of Szeged0
Ink0
The Bible in Photography: Index, Icon, Tableau, Vision0
The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana’s Drum Wars0
Divine Trust ( Amana ) and Climate Change in Jordan: Valuing Water in the Face of Water Scarcity0
Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion0
Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California0
The Fate of African Collections in European Museums0
The Medieval Mediterranean Between Islam and Christianity: Cross-Pollinations in Art, Architecture and Material Culture0
Secular0
Material in text, text in material: a tamil christian lullaby0
Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India0
Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes! The Material Religion of Footloose0
Plastic(s)0
Material Change: The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-19200
Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam0
The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract0
On Time and Interreligious Materiality – A Postcard from Slavonia0
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