Shiʿi materiality beyond Karbala: religion that matters

"Beyond Karbala examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shi'i Islam in diverse, understudied demographic and geographic contexts. It engages with conceptual debates in religious studies, material religion, anthropology of religion, and sociology of religion, and makes several...

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Contributors: Marei, Fouad Gehad (Editor) ; Shanneik, Yafa ca. 20./21. Jh. (Editor) ; Funke, Christian (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2024]
In: Handbook of Oriental studies (section 1, volume 179)
Year: 2024
Series/Journal:Handbook of Oriental studies The Near and Middle East ; volume 179 section 1, volume 179
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Shi'ah / Ritual / Material popular culture
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Shīʻah Customs and practices
B Material Culture Religious aspects Islam
B Shīʻah Rituals
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Beyond Karbala. - Leiden : Brill, 2024. - 9789004691377
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Summary:"Beyond Karbala examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shi'i Islam in diverse, understudied demographic and geographic contexts. It engages with conceptual debates in religious studies, material religion, anthropology of religion, and sociology of religion, and makes several propositions that push the frontiers of religious studies and scholarship on material religion. The contributions presented in this volume demonstrate how material 'things' and less-thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potential of the sacred tangible, cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and act as tangible links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly. The volume posits that materialities of religion are integral to processes of heritagization shaped by competing actors involved in the construction and canonization of religious-in this case, Shi'i-heritage"--
Introduction: Beyond Karbala: New Approaches to Shiʻi Materiality / Fouad Gehad Marei and Yafa Shanneik -- Part I. The Visuality and Aurality of Shiʻi Materiality: 1. The Literal and the Hidden: Some Bektashi Religious Materialities / Sara Kuehn -- 2. Mediated Devotion: Sound and Media in Transnational Azeri-Turkish Twelver Shiʻism / Stefan Williamson Fa -- 3. Sonic Messages: Hizbullah's Mawlid an-Nabi Celebrations in Lebanon / Ines Weinrich -- 4. Materializing Cultural Memory: From Wartime Eulogies to Panegyric Pop in Contemporary Iran / Maryam Aras -- Part II. Gendered Perspectives on Shiʻi Materiality: 5. Affective Consanguinity, Unadmitted Martyrdom: Mothers and Martyrs on the Battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War / Sana Chavoshian -- 6. Zur-khane: A Material Approach to the Embodiment of Twelver Shiʻi Male Virtue Ethics / Ingvild Flaskerud -- 7. In the Khidma ('Service') of Ahl al-Bayt: Gender, Agency and Social Capital in Shiʻi Religious Statue Art in Kuwait / Nada Al-Hudaid -- 8. A Price for a Wife or a Token of Love? Negotiating the Materiality of Mahr in Diasporic Shiʻi Marriage / Marianne Hafnor Bøe -- Part III. Sacred Objects and the Materiality of Shiʻi Life-Worlds: 9. Turbat al-Husayn: Development of a Tabarruk Ritual in Early Shiʻi Community / S.M. Hadi Gerami and Ali Imran Syed -- 10. The Place of Material Objects in the Alawi Ziyāra / Amelia Gallagher -- 11. Festive Illumination, Prayers, and Grave Visitation: Jashn-i Nisf Shaʻban in Kashmir / Hakim Sameer Hamdani -- 12. Wishing Trees and Whirling Rocks : Eco-material Rituals at the Alevi Shrine of Abdal Musa / Christiane Gruber -- Index.
Item Description:Includes index
ISBN:9004691332