Materializing Religion, Heidegger, and the Stability of Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones as Religious Objects
This article examines the stability of religious objects by asking how Joseph Smith’s seer stones, from which he dug for buried treasure and produced the Book of Mormon, were materialized into religious objects. This analysis challenges the assumed stability of material objects by demonstrating that...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Taylor & Francis
[2020]
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Material religion
Jahr: 2020, Band: 16, Heft: 3, Seiten: 345-359 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Smith, Joseph 1805-1844
/ Stein
/ Wahrsagen
/ Religion
/ Materialität
/ Verborgenheit
/ Heiligkeit
/ Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976, Sein und Zeit
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion AZ Neue Religionen KDH Christliche Sondergemeinschaften |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
religious objects
B Material Religion B Mormon studies B seer stones B Museum B Martin Heidegger B Latter-day Saints B Joseph Smith B Ann Taves |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article examines the stability of religious objects by asking how Joseph Smith’s seer stones, from which he dug for buried treasure and produced the Book of Mormon, were materialized into religious objects. This analysis challenges the assumed stability of material objects by demonstrating that the seer stones could potentially lose their religious qualities and values once they were examined, displayed, or explained. This is framed by using Martin Heidegger’s practical descriptions “ready-to-hand” and “present-to-hand” to explain the unstable nature of religious objects and why public examination and explanation of religious objects can potentially strip them of their perceived sacredness. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2020.1756165 |