Objects, object-ness, and shadows of meanings: carving prayer beads and exploring their materiality alongside a Khaksari Sufi Murshid
Prayer beads, through processes of craftsmanship and trade, arrive at meanings, significations, and imaginative associations that are inscribed by religious-cultural codes or social networks. The shadows of meanings overwhelm their material existence as prayer beads despite their lives beginning bef...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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Material religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 368-388 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Iran
/ Khāksār
/ Prayer cord
/ Sacred object
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam |
Further subjects: | B
anthropology of materiality
B Islam B objectness B speculative realism B object-oriented ontology B Sufism B Rosary B Surplus B OOO |
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