By Amy Whitehead

ISBN-10: 1441110283

ISBN-13: 9781441110282

ISBN-10: 1474228569

ISBN-13: 9781474228565

items equivalent to statues and icons have lengthy been frustrating within the learn of faith, particularly in ecu Christianities. via studying teams, the modern Pagan Glastonbury Goddess faith within the Southwest of britain and a cult of the Virgin Mary in Andalusia, Spain, Amy Whitehead asserts that items should be greater than representational or symbolic. within the context of accelerating educational curiosity in materiality in religions and cultures, she exhibits how statues, or 'things', should not constantly interacted with as though they're inert fabric opposed to which we mostly outline ourselves as 'modern' humans.

Bringing certain cultures and religions into stress, animism and 'the fetish' are used as ways that to consider how people engage with non secular statues in Western Europe and past. either theoretical and descriptive, the e-book illustrates how religions and cultural practices could be re-examined as performances that unavoidably contain not just human people, but additionally objects.

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