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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hans Belting (1935–2023): Images Beyond “The Era of Art”9
Turku Cathedral Museum: Two Exhibitions Displaying the Material Heritage of the Cathedral5
Paper5
A Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka4
Protestant Relics in Early America3
Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom3
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
Silent Encounters2
Viva George: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border2
Divine Śakti and Human Power Relations: Studying the Embodied and Enacted Feelings of a Himalayan Hindu Goddess1
The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China1
When the Text Draws You In: Literacy Assemblages in a Luxembourgish Synagogue1
Devotion in the Home as Private Devotion1
Thinking Through Lost Art: Living Newar Buddhist Traditions Between Temple Theft, Repatriation, and Heritage in Nepal1
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
Light1
The Hyperreal Sacred: Exploring Buddhist Museums in Taiwan1
A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe1
What to call a tlamacazqui? nahuatl and spanish translations in the florentine codex1
“When I Dance, I Feel the Earth Under my Feet”: Aesthetics and Material Culture in Swiss Neo-Spiritual Dances1
Blood1
Animal1
Passport1
Reflections from a “Third Space”: “Politics is What Happens Between Bodies”1
Material Deposits at Sacred Sites—the Many Faces of Modern Paganism in Estonia1
Religious Repercussions in Hans Belting’s Anthropology of Images1
From Balconies to Bedframes: the Home’s Subversive Spiritual Dimensions in Early Modern Venice1
American religion at The Met Cloisters1
Fluid1
Roman Domestic Religion: Questions of Transformation and Continuity1
islam and the devotional object: Seeing religion in egypt and syria1
Nourishment1
To Wear or Not to Wear: Contesting Hijab at the Pentecost Hospital in Madina1
Make Aura Great Again?1
AI1
Introduction: On Buddhist Exhibitions and Museums in Asia1
Beneath the Hermit’s Hut: on Ascetic Burial and the Possibility of Hindu Relics0
Revealing Missionary Entanglements with Religious Objects: Examples from the Museum of Religions, University of Marburg0
Spirits in the Museum0
Etched in Stone: Shaligrams as Object-Texts0
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America0
pig trotters in madina market0
The Bible in Photography: Index, Icon, Tableau, Vision0
Zombies—Death is Not the End?0
The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana’s Drum Wars0
Religious Materialities, Aesthetics, and Protests in Urban Poland: Religious Icons and the Re-Emergence of Civil Society0
The Curious Case of the Condom: How the Secular Matters in the Netherlands0
Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy0
Making the Invisible Matter0
Underground Bath Museum in Baku: A Brief Reflection on the Material and Immaterial Dimensions of Purification0
Paper Icons and Fasting Bodies: The Esthetic Formations of Serbian Orthodoxy0
Material in text, text in material: a tamil christian lullaby0
Decay0
First Knowledges Collection Box Set Series0
Divine Trust ( Amana ) and Climate Change in Jordan: Valuing Water in the Face of Water Scarcity0
Exhibiting the Mission: Display Lives of the Utrecht Missionary Society Collection0
Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066–13200
The Handbook on Religion and Communication0
Response to my Critics0
From the Bedroom to the Church, and Back0
Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
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
Estonian-Finnish Art Connections in the Middle Ages and the Bells of Turku Cathedral0
Materializing Nostalgia: Feet, Youtube, and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela0
The Guli: A Shrine of Fluctuating Agencies. Materiality, Spirits and Psychosomatic Experience in the Afro-Amerindian Religion of Dugu0
Agency, Images, and Visual Culture: the impact of Hans Belting0
Doorposts of Inclusion: Trans Pride Mezuzah as a Marker of Jewish-Queer Space0
Material Change: The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-19200
Beyond the Storehouse: The Case of an Early Buddhist Temple Museum in Japan0
Judaism as Flowers: The Materialized Ideology of the New Synagogue of Szeged0
The making of faith: human intentions and material influences in the orthodox christian practice of iconography0
Ritual0
Mary, Queen of Style: Catholic Modest Fashion in Midcentury America0
Deliberating Aura0
Material Religion, Material Religion , and the Matter of Critique: On “Belief” / The Art of What Fits in the Headline: On “Art”0
Aesthetics, Kinaesthetics, and Taste in Contrasting Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Initiatives0
Masterpieces for Popular Devotion. The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)0
Oil0
Bones0
Material Disruptions in the Rabbinic Landscape0
Domestic Religious Objects: Never “Just at Home”0
On Possibilities for Sensory Research0
Review ofOmar, la Opera–Outlooks Series, Material Religion0
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory0
There is Always Someone in the Storage0
beautiful and precarious female dummies in madina0
Vision/s0
Gods on the Move: Ritual Experience and the Formation of Dynamic Divine Presence in the Western Himalaya0
The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt0
Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion0
Unpacking Missionary Collections0
Ink0
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
Thing0
Zhunti and Juntei: a Study of the Zhunti Mantra Sheet at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston0
Curating Commonality: Multimodal Materialities of Intercommunal Northern African Heritage0
A Gallery of Ghosts: Death and Burial in Lands Marked by Trauma0
The Materiality of Turku Cathedral’s Spiritual Treasury: Indulgences0
The Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism: Combatting Consumerism and Climate Change Through Performance0
The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract0
Making Memory Matter: claiming Place and Belonging in Johannesburg and Nairobi0
Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam0
Ayahuasca0
The Story of a Sikh Museum: Heritage, Politics, Popular Culture0
Vitality and Vestige: Notes on Domestication0
Secular0
Eating Ashure on Ashura: Gastro-Politics and Intra-Muslim Relations in Contemporary Turkey0
Machine0
Ecological Gothic: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden0
Converted Gods: Lives and Travels of Asante Abosom and Asuman Figures0
Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition0
Abstract art and church membership in the life of a jewish woman: vicci sperry’s paintings0
Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India0
In and Out of this World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam0
Conceptions of Divinity: Statue Making in Contemporary Taiwan and the Ritual of Embedding the Spirit ( Rushen )0
Authority with Textual Materials – Power of the Written Qur’an0
Illumination0
Tools of Magic – Ritual Handling and Human-Thing Entanglement in 19th-Century Finland0
When does History Begin? Religion, Narrative, and Identity in the Sikh Tradition0
On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawai’i in a Belgian museum0
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race0
On Time and Interreligious Materiality – A Postcard from Slavonia0
Eternity in the Ether: a Mormon Media History0
Introduction: Bringing Religion Home0
Feeling Material Culture: Affect, Power, Sensation0
Cosmic Calligraphy and Character Physiognomy 相字 in Late Imperial China0
Introduction0
Reawakening Ancestors, Gods and Spirits: An Investigation into Reconfigurations of “Sacred Space” in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam0
Making the Gods Speak: the Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
Skin0
Heritage0
Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North0
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History0
Illiberal Jewish–Christian Encounters at the Interstices of Gendered Wellness0
The Medieval Mediterranean Between Islam and Christianity: Cross-Pollinations in Art, Architecture and Material Culture0
From Objects to Larger Material Structures / From Belief to Practices0
Depositing All Their Joys and Sorrows at Their Feet. The Emotional Weight of Devotional Objects in the Home0
The Central Cemetery in Vienna: Past and Present of Muslim Areas0
Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:” Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary0
Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities0
Picturing Aura, Picturing Race?0
Veiling in the Late Antique World0
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds0
Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the Provenance of Egba Material Culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission0
Discursive Atheism against Material Religion: Hermeneutic Ambiguity of Soviet Antireligious Museums0
Kolonya Renaissance: Disinfection, Healing, and the Role of Eau de Cologne during the early COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and its Diaspora0
Methodology and Metaphysics0
Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display0
Circulation0
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion that Matters0
Teaching Research Skills Through the Study of Religious Objects at Home0
Original Copies: the Newest Reproductions of the Shroud of Turin0
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
Contemporary Sikh Domestic Practices in Italy0
Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin’s House of One0
A Study of Women’s Religion, Life, and Agency through Guanyin Hairpins in Ming Dynasty China0
Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California0
Material Culture, Experimentation, and Household Lighting in Early Rabbinic Judaism0
The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters0
Medicine0
Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga0
Tattoos and Sonic Imitation: Mantras, Body Tuning and Tattooing as Sounding0
Dynamic Domestic Devotion: Pipe-Clay Images Moving Through the Home in the Late Medieval Low Countries0
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America0
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
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
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist0
Betrayal | Resistance, Central Methodist Mission, Cape Town, South Africa0
Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage0
Sacred0
Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes! The Material Religion of Footloose0
The Awkward Engagements of Material Religion / "The Stuff of Material Religion"0
Modalities of co-existence in madina, ghana0
Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together0
Faith, “Fetish,” and the Making of Kongo Christianity: Missionary Collecting and the Shifting Meanings of Kongo Crucifixes in Late Colonial Northern Angola0
Time, Materiality, and History in UK-Based Interfaith Solidarity Work0
Making Fatima’s Presence Visible: Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran0
Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace0
“Not Built as a Shrine, but as a Sacred Space”: The Devotional Nature of Museums Dedicated to Candidates for Sainthood0
Presence and Life in the Work of Hans Belting0
Marks and Traces0
In-between: Studying Lived Plurality from the Interstice0
Transportation0
dining with Russian Old Believers: guesthood, gender roles and rules of ritual purity0
Introduction: on Material and Embodied Power Dynamics and Religion0
Plastic(s)0
Key Terms for Material Religion 20250
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation0
Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)0
Seekers, Seers and Soothsayers: Artistic Mediations of the Nonphysical World0
Theodicy of Privilege and the Development of a Colossal Buddhist Statue and Art Museum in Post-handover Hong Kong0
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity0
Embodied Wearing: clothing for Artemis in Ancient Athenian Religion 10
Retracted Book Review [Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil]0
Human0
Inventoried Sacred: Reliquaries in Nordic Church Treasuries0
The Fate of African Collections in European Museums0
Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media0
Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium0
Representing Muhammad: The Prophet on Screen0
Retraction Statement [Regarding the Book Review of "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" by Rodrigo Toniol]0
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