{"product_id":"gestures-the-study-of-religion-as-practice-hardback-9780823299614","title":"Gestures; The Study of Religion As Practice (Hardback) 9780823299614","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGestures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Study of Religion As Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichiel Leezenberg (Edited by), Anne-Marie Korte (Edited by), Martin M. van Bruinessen (Edited by), Umut Azak (Contributions by), Christoph Baumgartner (Contributions by), Rajeev Bhargava (Contributions by), John R. Bowen (Contributions by), Judith Butler (Contributions by), Rokus de Groot (Contributions by), Martijn de Koning (Contributions by), Sanne Derks (Contributions by), Wendy Doniger (Contributions by), Willy Jansen (Contributions by), Yolande Jansen (Contributions by), Mariwan Kanie (Contributions by), Webb Keane (Contributions by), Anne-Marie Korte (Contributions by), Michael Lambek (Contributions by), Bruno Latour (Contributions by), Michiel Leezenberg (Contributions by), Annelies Moors (Contributions by), Catrien Notermans (Contributions by), S. Brent Plate (Contributions by), Samuli Schielke (Contributions by), Regina M. Schwartz (Contributions by), Yvonne Sherwood (Contributions by), Thomas Tweed (Contributions by), Martin M. van Bruinessen (Contributions by), Sander van Maas (Contributions by), Ali Hassan Zaidi (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823299614\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 August 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e688 pages, 18 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 4.5 cm, 1.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and \u003ci\u003eGestures: The Study of Religion as Practice \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts but as lived experience.\u003cbr\u003e Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e   xiii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Credits\u003c\/i\u003e   xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e  xvii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Practice Turns in the Study of Religion\u003cbr\u003e MICHIEL LEEZENBERG   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI . RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eGesturing Toward Sacrifice: Aping the Scapegoat and Monkeying Around with the Lamb\u003cbr\u003e YVONNE SHERWOOD   47\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Unpacking \"Performance\": Felicity Conditions, Efficacy, and Indexicals in Islamic Actions\u003cbr\u003e JOHN R. BOWEN   106\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003e\"Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame\": How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate\u003cbr\u003e BRUNO LATOUR   119\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eDorsal Monuments: Messiaen, Sellars, and Saint Francis\u003cbr\u003e SANDER VAN MAAS   141\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII . EMBODIMENT AND MATERIALI TY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eFrom Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India\u003cbr\u003e WENDY DONIGER   173\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street\u003cbr\u003e JUDITH BUTLER   194\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eDivine Impersonations: Transgressive Gestures in Hindu Devotion\u003cbr\u003e ROKUS DE GROOT   215\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. \u003c\/b\u003eIslamic Dress and Fashion: A Religious and a Sartorial Practice Revisited\u003cbr\u003e ANNELIES MOORS   235\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9.\u003c\/b\u003e On Spirit Writing: Materialities of Language and the Religious Work of Transduction\u003cbr\u003e WEBB KEANE   249\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIII . EVERYDAY RELIGION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e The Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly Trajectories\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS A. TWEED   279\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11. \u003c\/b\u003eRhythms of Roots: Identity Politics in Religious Dance Processions in Bolivia\u003cbr\u003e SANNE DERKS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, AND WILLY JANSEN   303\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e12.\u003c\/b\u003e State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr\u003cbr\u003e UMUT AZAK   322\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e13.\u003c\/b\u003e Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam\u003cbr\u003e SAMULI SCHIELKE   348\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIV. TRANSGRESSIVE ACTS: HERESY AND BLASPHEMY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e14.\u003c\/b\u003e Eventual Blasphemies: Setting the Offensive Work of Art in Time\u003cbr\u003e S. BRENT PLATE   375\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e15. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Political Gesture of \"Blasphemous\" Art: Facing Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer\u003cbr\u003e ANNE-MARIE KORTE   391\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e16.\u003c\/b\u003e On Silencing and Public Debates about Religiously Offensive Acts\u003cbr\u003e CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER   417\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e17. \u003c\/b\u003eOffending Muslims: Provocation, Blasphemy, and Public Debate in the Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e MARTIJN DE KONING   445\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eV. VIOLENT RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSACRIFICE AND MARTYRDOM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e18. \u003c\/b\u003eSacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Meditations from Sakalava Mythopraxis\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL LAMBEK   475\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e19.\u003c\/b\u003e The Mass and the Theater: Othello and Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e REGINA M. SCHWARTZ   502\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e20. \u003c\/b\u003eMartyrdom, Religion, and Nation in Kurdish Literature\u003cbr\u003e MARIWAN KANIE   524\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e21. \u003c\/b\u003eSuicide Terrorism and the Modern Nation-State: Antiliberal Protest or Biopolitical Performance?\u003cbr\u003e MICHIEL LEEZENBERG   546\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eVI . SECULARISM AND POSTSECULARISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e22.\u003c\/b\u003e Good Religion, Bad Religion: Beyond the Secularity-Religion and Secularity-Piety Binaries\u003cbr\u003e YOLANDE JANSEN   579\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e23.\u003c\/b\u003e Human Rights, Muslim Communities, and the Unintentional Secularization of Canada\u003cbr\u003e ALI HASSAN ZAIDI   605\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e24.\u003c\/b\u003e The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism\u003cbr\u003e RAJEEV BHARGAVA   623\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e   651\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  657\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580467867928,"sku":"9780823299614","price":89.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/gestures-the-study-of-religion-as-practice-hardback-9780823299614","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}