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Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. The book is divided into three sections: Part One revitalizes basic categories-animism and sacred, space and time-by situating them in their material production and testing their analytical viability. Part Two examines religious formations as configurations of power that operate in material cultures and cultural economies and are most clearly shown in the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. Part Three explores the material dynamics of circulation through case studies of religious mobility, change, and diffusion as intimate as the body and as vast as the oceans. Each chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of religion from poetics to politics, David Chidester provides an entry into the study of material religion that will be welcomed by students and specialists in religious studies, anthropology, and history.

Religion --- Materialism --- Philosophy. --- Religious aspects. --- analytical viability. --- animism. --- anthropology. --- colonialism. --- deconstructing religion. --- history. --- imperialism. --- material categories. --- material religion. --- material study of religion. --- mobile circulations. --- poetics. --- politics. --- power relations. --- religious formations. --- religious materiality. --- religious mobility. --- religious studies. --- sacred. --- social formations. --- space and time. --- specialists. --- students.

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The conceptual territory of religious tourism is fluid. While recreation and leisure-based motivation and behaviors are evident in religious tourism, this volume reiterates its rootedness in tenets from religious traditions and pilgrimages. Using fresh perspectives on place-stories, rituals, performances, that are central to pilgrimage and sacred sites, essays in this volume explain contemporary expressions of religious tourism and illustrate the dynamic nature of religious tourism as an ecosystem embedded in religious practices, rituals and performances. The explanations will benefit researchers and practioners alike and they can find numerous examples that show the significance of religious tourism for sustainable development of destinations.

Technology: general issues --- festival --- customer classification --- factor analysis --- motivation --- folklore belief --- World Youth Day --- eventization of faith --- religious tourism --- Archdiocese of Lodz --- Poland --- shinto shrine --- popular culture --- tourist performances --- material religion --- pilgrimage --- sacred sites --- motorbiking --- biker --- Church of England --- retreat --- pilgrimage center --- sanctuary --- sanctuary service zones --- city space --- spatial development --- tourist function --- geography of religion --- ancestral temple of Mazu --- commodification --- diaspora --- folklorization --- invention of tradition --- transnationalism --- authenticity --- spirituality --- Mount Athos --- hospitality --- pilgrimage tourism --- Buddhist pilgrimage --- ritual ecology --- Buddhism --- Bodhgaya --- Buddhist heritage --- n/a

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The conceptual territory of religious tourism is fluid. While recreation and leisure-based motivation and behaviors are evident in religious tourism, this volume reiterates its rootedness in tenets from religious traditions and pilgrimages. Using fresh perspectives on place-stories, rituals, performances, that are central to pilgrimage and sacred sites, essays in this volume explain contemporary expressions of religious tourism and illustrate the dynamic nature of religious tourism as an ecosystem embedded in religious practices, rituals and performances. The explanations will benefit researchers and practioners alike and they can find numerous examples that show the significance of religious tourism for sustainable development of destinations.

Technology: general issues --- festival --- customer classification --- factor analysis --- motivation --- folklore belief --- World Youth Day --- eventization of faith --- religious tourism --- Archdiocese of Lodz --- Poland --- shinto shrine --- popular culture --- tourist performances --- material religion --- pilgrimage --- sacred sites --- motorbiking --- biker --- Church of England --- retreat --- pilgrimage center --- sanctuary --- sanctuary service zones --- city space --- spatial development --- tourist function --- geography of religion --- ancestral temple of Mazu --- commodification --- diaspora --- folklorization --- invention of tradition --- transnationalism --- authenticity --- spirituality --- Mount Athos --- hospitality --- pilgrimage tourism --- Buddhist pilgrimage --- ritual ecology --- Buddhism --- Bodhgaya --- Buddhist heritage

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Art, shamanism, and animism are mutable, contested terms which, when brought together, present a highly charged package. Debates around these three terms continue to generate interest and strong opinions in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The editors recognise the urgency to explore them together in an unprecedented exercise which, to date, has only been attempted with reference to selected disciplines, periods, or regions. The contributors to this collection reignite debates around the status of ‘things’ identified as ‘art’ through the lens of theories drawn from new materialism, new animism, and multi-species and relational thinking. They are concerned with how and when art-like things may exceed conventional understandings of ‘art’ and ‘representation’ to fully articulate multiple scenarios or ‘manifestations’ in which they interface with academic discourses around animism and shamanism. The authors put in sharp focus the materiality of art-things while stressing their agentive, emotive, and performative aspects, looking beyond their appearances to what they do and who they may be or become in their dealings with diverse interlocutors. The contributors are united in their recognition that things and images are deeply entangled with how different communities, human and other-than-human, experience life, shifting attention from an obsolete concept of worldview to how reality is perceived through all the senses, in all its aspects, both tangible and intangible.

animism --- totemism --- analogism --- art and architecture --- mortuary practices --- Neolithic Britain and Ireland --- ethnographic analogy --- Saami shamanism --- animals --- power animals --- ritual creativity --- Isogaisa --- Papua New Guinea --- relational ontology --- onto-praxis --- personhood --- dividuality --- gender --- Catholic charismatic Christianity --- charismatic space --- shaman --- material religion --- materiality --- image --- Korea --- ancestor veneration --- animacy --- materiality of stone --- Andes --- Quechua --- extirpation of idolatry --- funerary cult --- Ancash --- Cajatambo --- archaeology --- shamanism --- ontology --- Casas Grandes --- horned-plumed serpent --- American Puebloan Southwest --- art --- connections --- fluidity --- shapeshifting --- spirit world --- subversion --- trance --- Mesoamerica --- art and archaeology --- Indigenous ontology --- relational theory --- divination --- spirit impersonation --- material agency --- Daur shamanism --- social interface --- ritual ceremony --- embodiment of ancestral spirits --- inter-human metamorphosis --- shamanic landscape --- n/a --- museums --- Anishinaabe peoples and language --- pipes --- treaties --- rock art --- New Animisms --- dualism --- multinatural --- hunting --- taming

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The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements in 2003, the field has continued to expand and break new ground. In this all-new volume, James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen bring together established and rising scholars to address an expanded range of topics, covering traditional religious studies topics such as "scripture," "charisma," and "ritual," while also applying new theoretical approaches to NRM topics. Other chapters cover understudied topics in the field, such as the developmental patterns of NRMs and subcultural considerations in the study of NRMs.The first part of this book examines NRMs from a social-scientific perspective, particularly that of sociology. In the second section, the primary factors that have put the study of NRMs on the map, controversy and conflict, are considered. The third section investigates common themes within the field of NRMs, while the fourth examines the approaches that religious studies researchers have taken to NRMs. As NRM Studies has grown, subfields such as Esotericism, New Age Studies, and neo-Pagan Studies have grown as distinct and individual areas of study, and the final section of the book investigates these emergent fields.

Cults. --- 291.115 --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Godsdienst: toekomst; nieuwe godsdiensten; éénmaking; wereldgodsdienst --- 291.115 Godsdienst: toekomst; nieuwe godsdiensten; éénmaking; wereldgodsdienst --- Cults --- categorizing religious organizations --- conversion --- charisma and authority in new religious movements --- disaffiliation and new religious movements --- subcultures --- new religions --- psychology and new religous movements --- the emergence of new religions --- the North American anticult movement --- the Christian countercult movement --- brainwashing and 'cultic mind control' --- Jonestown --- 9-11 --- violence and new religious movements --- conspiracy theories and new religious movements --- Satanic ritual abuse --- cult journalism --- children in new religions --- media --- technology --- new religions and science --- gender and new religions --- sex and new religions --- occulture --- religious studies --- rituals and ritualization in new religious movements --- reality construction --- religious experiences in new religious movements --- new religious movements and scripture --- material religion --- the narrative exaltation of sect leaders and heads of new religions --- Millennialism --- New Age --- UFOs and extraterrestrials in the contemporary religious landscape --- late modern shamanism --- Norway --- modern religious Satanism --- Western esotericism and new religious movements --- Paganism and Wicca --- Native American prophet religions