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Digital Humanities and Material Religion
An Introduction
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Edited by:
Emily Suzanne Clark
and Rachel McBride Lindsey
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English
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2022
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Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?
Its chapters address a range of processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization, embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the material shape religious life.
Collectively, the volume demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny required of the humanities in the digital age.
Its chapters address a range of processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization, embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the material shape religious life.
Collectively, the volume demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny required of the humanities in the digital age.
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Emily Suzanne Clark, Gonzaga University, Spokane and Rachel McBride Lindsey, Saint Louis University, USA.
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1. Digital Materiality: Possibilities of Interpretive Frameworks in the Academic Study of Religion
1 - Part 1. Emerging Frameworks of Digital Materiality
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Chapter 2. Promiscuous Affiliation: Evangelical Women, Biblical Mediation and Digital Infrastructures of Conversion
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Chapter 3. Digital Scriptures, Material Religion, and the Digital Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Curating Digitized Sacred Texts Online
49 - Part 2. How the Material Becomes Digital: Methods in Digital Material Religion
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Chapter 4. Visiting Religious Spaces in the Digital Realm: The MAVCOR Digital Spaces Project in Historical Context
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Chapter 5. Balinese Religio-cultural Imaginaries and Rituals of Digital Materiality
111 - Part 3. Intersections of the Digital and Material: Tools, Questions, and Processes
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Chapter 6. Material, Maternal, Embodied, and Digital: Objects and Practices in Natural Parenting
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Chapter 7. (Re)Enchanting the Digital: Technological Manifestations of Baraka
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Chapter 8. Beyond Recognition? Orphan Objects, Decolonization, and Religious Histories of the Spanish Americas
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Conclusion. Challenges and Possibilities in Digital Humanities and Material Religion
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Index
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eBook published on:
April 4, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110608755
Paperback published on:
April 18, 2022
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9783110604658
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Front matter:
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212
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18
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and students of material religion and the digital humanities
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