Making Spirits | Free Book
Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religions
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.
About the Author
Diana Espirito Santo is currently a research fellow in social anthropology based at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CRIA, FCSH-UNL). She works between Cuba and Brazil on themes of learning and cognition, personhood, materiality and cosmology in spirit mediumship practices. Nico Tassi is a research associate of the Programa de Ivestigacion Estrategica en Bolivia (PIEB) and visiting scholar at University College London. He has dedicated most of his academic work to the study of Bolivia's indigenous highlanders, focusing on religion and political economy, materiality and transcendence, trade and informality.
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