Sensational religion: sensory cultures in material practice

Contents

Religion, sensation, and materiality: an introduction / Sally M. Promey -- Pt. One: Inhabitations -- Objects of possession: photography, spirits, and the entangled arts of appearance / Paul Christopher Johnson -- "Soft warm hands": ninetheenth-century spiritualist practices and the materialization of touch / Michelle Morgan -- Possession and the possessed: the multisensoriality of spirits, bodies, and objects in Heian Japan / Yui Suzuki -- Tethering Djinns: sensation, religion, and contention in popular Turkish media / Perin Gurel -- Shadowy relations and shades of devotion: production and possession of the 1886 Smith College composite photography / Kati Curts -- The spirit in the cubicle: a religious history of the American office / Kathryn Lofton -- Sensing the city: night in the Venetian ghetto / Dana E. Katz -- The materiality of the imperceptiable: the eruv / Margaret Olin -- Interlude One: Contested grounds -- Converstions in museums / James Clifton -- Revolutionary icons: Alfred Barr and the remaking of Russian religious art / Richard Meyer -- Sonic differences: listening to the adhan in a pluralistic America / Isaac Weiner -- Art and sensory contention in a Christian seminary / Kathryn Reklis -- Complicated candy? sensory approaches to the controversy over Sweet Jesus / Horace D. Ballard Jr. -- Space invaders: the public, the private, and perceptions of Islamic "incursions" in secular America / Haroon Moghul -- Pt. Two: Transgressions -- Praying for grace: Charles Ellis Johnson's synesthetic skin / Mary Campbell -- "The best hotel on the boardwalk": church women, negro art, and the construction of interracial space in the interwar years / Betty Livingston Adams -- Aestheticizing religion: sensorial visuality and coffeehouse painting in Iran / Minoo Moallem -- Piety, barbrism, and the senses in Byzantium / Vasileios Marinis -- Paul Gauguin: sensing the infitite / June Hargrove -- Sensory devotions: hair embroidery and gendered corporeal practice in Chinese Buddhism / Yuhang Li -- Shock value: the Jesuit martyrs of Japan and the ethics of sight / Mia M. Mochizuki -- Interlude two: Devotional bodies -- Acts of conversion: sanctification and the senses of race in the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan / Elaine Y. Yau -- Spiritual complexions: on race and the body in the Moorish Science Temple of America / Judith Weisenfeld -- Sensing exclusions: disability and the protestant worship environment / Erinn Staley -- The divine touchability of dreams / Angie Heo -- When the world is alive, spirit is not dismembered: philosophical reflections on the good mind / Laurel C. Schneider -- The Shroud of Bologna: lighting up Pier Paolo Pasolini's sensational corpus / Ara H. Merjian -- Pt. Three: Transformations -- Bodies and becoming: mimesis, mediation, and the ingestion of the sacred in Christianity and Islam / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Criminal and martyr: the case of James Legg's Anatomical Crucifixion / Meredith Gamer -- Extirpation of idolatry and sensory experience in sixteenth-century Mexico / Barbara E. Mundy -- Seeing, Falling, Feeling: the sense of angels / Meredith J. Gill-- The faltering brush: material, sensory trace, and nonduality in Chan/Zen Buddhist death verse calligraphies / Gregory P.A. Levine -- Transporting Mormonism: railroads and religious sensation in the American West / David Walker -- Slippery and slow: Chavin's great stones and kenaesthetic perception / Mary Weismantel -- Spiritual sensations and material transformations in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park / Sally M. Promey -- Religion, sensation, and materiality: a conclusion / Sally M. Promey.