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Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy

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Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical MediaPasi Väliaho. 2022Stanford: Stanford University Press xx + 252 pp., 35 illustrationsISBN 9781503631939

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Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in CaliforniaSowing the sacred: mexican pentecostal farmworkers in california, Lloyd DanielBarba, 2022New York: Oxford University Press 377 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-751656-0

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Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist KingdomBaptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist KingdomAlexandra Kaloyanides. 2023 New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 289 pp., ISBN: 9780231199841 (hardback); 9780231199858 (trade paperback); 9780231553315 (ebook)

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Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga

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Crafting to Serve: Craftsmen and Tomb Construction from the 11th to 14th Centuries in China’s Central Plains Region

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Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion

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Introduction

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Authority with Textual Materials – Power of the Written Qur’an

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Mary Magdalene: A Cultural HistoryMary Magdalene: A Cultural HistoryPhilip C. Almond. 2023Cambridge: Cambridge University Press xv + 347 pp., ISBN: 9781009221696

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The Handbook on Religion and CommunicationEdited by Yoel Cohen and Paul A. Soukup. 2023The Handbook on Religion and CommunicationChichester, UK: John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd.576 pp., ISBN 978-1-119-67155-8

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Material Disruptions in the Rabbinic Landscape

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From Objects to Larger Material Structures / From Belief to Practices

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Art, Object, Religion, &amp; Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)

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Material Religion, <i>Material Religion</i> , and the Matter of Critique: On “Belief” / The Art of What Fits in the Headline: On “Art”

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The Awkward Engagements of Material Religion / “The Stuff of Material Religion”

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The Central Cemetery in Vienna: Past and Present of Muslim Areas

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Judaism as Flowers: The Materialized Ideology of the New Synagogue of Szeged

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Introduction: Material Religion in Central and Eastern Europe

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Religious Materialities, Aesthetics, and Protests in Urban Poland: Religious Icons and the Re-Emergence of Civil Society

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Material Deposits at Sacred Sites—the Many Faces of Modern Paganism in Estonia

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Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:” Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary

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Mary, Queen of Style: Catholic Modest Fashion in Midcentury America

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Eternity in the Ether: a Mormon Media HistoryBy GavinFeller.2023Eternity in the Ether: A Mormon Media HistoryUrbana, Chicago, and Springfield, IL: University of Illinois Press. 212 pp., ISBN 978-0-252-08685-4

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The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary BrazilThe Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil. Maria José De Abreu. 2021. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp., ISBN: 9781478011347 (paperback)

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A Study of Women’s Religion, Life, and Agency through Guanyin Hairpins in Ming Dynasty China

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Cosmic Calligraphy and Character Physiognomy 相字 in Late Imperial China

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<i>Kolonya</i> Renaissance: Disinfection, Healing, and the Role of Eau de Cologne during the early COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and its Diaspora

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Religious Repercussions in Hans Belting’s Anthropology of Images

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Masterpieces for Popular Devotion. The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)

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Hans Belting (1935–2023): Images Beyond “The Era of Art”

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Original Copies: the Newest Reproductions of the Shroud of Turin

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The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China

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Presence and Life in the Work of Hans Belting

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“Not Built as a Shrine, but as a Sacred Space”: The Devotional Nature of Museums Dedicated to Candidates for Sainthood

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