Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. Religion, Sensation, and Materiality: An Introduction 1
5. Part One. Inhabitations
6. Introduction 23
7. 2. Objects of Possession: Photography, Spirits, and the Entangled Arts of Appearance 25
8. 3. “Soft Warm Hands”: Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist Practices and the Materialization of Touch 47
9. 4. Possessions and the Possessed: The Multisensoriality of Spirits, Bodies, and Objects in Heian Japan 67
10. 5. Tethering Djinns: Sensation, Religion, and Contention in Popular Turkish Media 89
11. 6. Shadowy Relations and Shades of Devotion: Production and Possession of the 1886 Smith College Composite Photograph 113
12. 7. The Spirit in the Cubicle: A Religious History of the American Office 135
13. 8. Sensing the City: Night in the Venetian Ghetto 159
14. 9. The Materiality of the Imperceptible: The Eruv 183
15. Interlude One. Contested Grounds
16. Introduction 203
17. 10. Conversations in Museums 205
18. 11. Revolutionary Icons: Alfred Barr and the Remaking of Russian Religious Art 215
19. 12. Sonic Differences: Listening to the Adhan in a Pluralistic America 225
20. 13. Art and Sensory Contention in a Christian Seminary 231
21. 14. Complicated Candy: Sensory Approaches to the Controversy over Sweet Jesus 239
22. 15. Space Invaders: The Public, the Private, and Perceptions of Islamic “Incursions” in Secular America 247
23. Part Two. Transgressions
24. Introduction 257
25. 16. Praying for Grace: Charles Ellis Johnson’s Synesthetic Skin 261
26. 17. “The Best Hotel on the Boardwalk”: Church Women, Negro Art, and the Construction of Interracial Space in the Interwar Years 275
27. 18. Aestheticizing Religion: Sensorial Visuality and Coffeehouse Painting in Iran 297
28. 19. Piety, Barbarism, and the Senses in Byzantium 321
29. 20. Paul Gauguin: Sensing the Infinite 341
30. 21. Sensory Devotions: Hair Embroidery and Gendered Corporeal Practice in Chinese Buddhism 355
31. 22. Shock Value: The Jesuit Martyrs of Japan and the Ethics of Sight 375
32. Interlude Two. Devotional Bodies
33. Introduction 399
34. 23. Acts of Conversion: Sanctification and the Senses of Race in the Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan 403
35. 24. Spiritual Complexions: On Race and the Body in the Moorish Science Temple of America 413
36. 25. Sensing Exclusions: Disability and the Protestant Worship Environment 429
37. 26. The Divine Touchability of Dreams 435
38. 27. When the World Is Alive, Spirit Is Not Dismembered: Philosophical Reflections on the Good Mind 441
39. 28. The Shroud of Bologna: Lighting Up Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Sensational Corpus 447
40. Part Three. Transformations
41. Introduction 457
42. 29. Bodies and Becoming: Mimesis, Mediation, and the Ingestion of the Sacred in Christianity and Islam 459
43. 30. Criminal and Martyr: The Case of James Legg’s Anatomical Crucifixion 495
44. 31. Extirpation of Idolatry and Sensory Experience in Sixteenth-Century Mexico 515
45. 32. Seeing, Falling, Feeling: The Sense of Angels 537
46. 33. The Faltering Brush: Material, Sensory Trace, and Nonduality in Chan/Zen Buddhist Death Verse Calligraphies 561
47. 34. Transporting Mormonism: Railroads and Religious Sensation in the American West 581
48. 35. Slippery and Slow: Chavín’s Great Stones and Kinaesthetic Perception 605
49. 36. Spiritual Sensations and Material Transformations in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park 625
50. 37. Religion, Sensation, and Materiality: A Conclusion 651
51. Contributors 655
52. Index 663