Afterword - gendering religious objects: placing them as agents in matrices of power
The articles in this special issue demonstrate how objects can be interpreted as agents, as gendered images that make a statement, and how their impacts can be understood and assessed by human actors. They are differentially placed in matrices of power, and they can be manipulated to shift genders,...
| Published in: | Material religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2007]
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| In: |
Material religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Agency
B Art objects B Memory B Biography B Process B Gender B Anthropomorphism B porous categories B Power |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | The articles in this special issue demonstrate how objects can be interpreted as agents, as gendered images that make a statement, and how their impacts can be understood and assessed by human actors. They are differentially placed in matrices of power, and they can be manipulated to shift genders, to play with gendered combinations, to expand the limits of a particular gendered domain, to creatively play with reproductive imagery, and even to sell commodities in new and enticing ways in the mass media. Gendered religious objects are "statements" addressed not only to the eye but to the emotions, and part of a complex cultural field in which things can play important roles in people's lives. The links that connect ritual power to other forms of agency and biographical significance are perhaps the most significant links that we need to examine to understand them better in a world of many diverse cultural forms. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2752/174322007780095726 |