Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book Award Winner of
the Borsch-Rast Book Prize & Lectureship An Oxford Alumni Book of the Month pick While …

Food is intrinsic to Vietnamese ritual activities. Religious practices involve cooking for
ancestors and the presentation of food to deities, spirits of national heroes, tutelary spirits, as …

Recent scholarship on material religion has demonstrated how decentralizing texts, focusing
on objects, and using material culture to shape our research inquiries enhances our …

A Bengali Dalit religion called Matua emerged in the nineteenth century in East Bengal. It
counts tens of millions of followers across the Bay of Bengal and the Indo–Bangladesh …

Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length
study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask …

This chapter pursues the relationship between temple ritual practices in ancient
Mesopotamia, particularly the third millennium bce, and the multiple senses that are …

Based on multiple years of ethnographic fieldwork alongside Puerto Rican Muslims in
Puerto Rico and the United States, this article explores issues of identification and belonging …

The question of how religious space constitutes as a socio-cultural fact is explored by means
of a case study on determining the boundary (sīmā) of a Buddhist monastery. Drawing on …

This chapter presents an argument for the closer integration of ancient disability studies with
sensory archaeologies, proposing that, in order to understand the lived complexities of …

This paper examines how the materiality of lighting influenced the development of ancient
rabbinic teachings that would later become the foundations of Jewish law. Drawing on ideas …