Making Spirits

Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religions

By: Diana Espirito Santo (Editor), Nico Tassi (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 April 2013 | Edition Number 1

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The analysis of religion has often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies, prioritizing these elements over those of the material world. Through the ethnographic analysis of a variety of contemporary religious practices, Making Spirits questions the presumed separation of spirit and matter, and sheds light on the dynamics between spiritual and material domains. By examining the cultural contexts in which material culture is central to the creation and experience of religion and belief, this volume analyses the different ways in which the concepts of the material and spiritual worlds intersect, interact and inform each other in the reproduction of religious rites. Using examples such as spirit mediums, fetishes and ritual objects across a variety of cultures such as Latin America, Japan and Central Africa, Nico Tassi and Diana Espirito Santo offer insights that challenge accepted categories in the study of religion, making this book important for scholars of comparative religion, anthropology and sociology.

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This volume is a must-read for all students of religion and of anthropology for two different and complementary reasons. On the hand, the editors bring together two anthropological traditions, in an extremely relevant way for religionists: the tradition around "material culture" studies, and the tradition which looks towards a major rethinking of the relationships between human subjects and their surrounding material and spiritual worlds. Furthermore, the book is useful because of the ethnographic richness of each chapter, which grounds the theoretical debates in people's everyday lives, covering an amazing scope of cross-cultural settings and situations.' - Dr Ramon Sarro, Lecturer in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

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