{"product_id":"gestures-9780823299621","title":"Gestures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts but as lived experience.   Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e | xiii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Credits\u003c\/i\u003e | xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e| xvii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Practice Turns in the Study of Religion\u003cbr\u003e MICHIEL LEEZENBERG | 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI . RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eGesturing Toward Sacrifice: Aping the Scapegoat and Monkeying Around with the Lamb\u003cbr\u003e YVONNE SHERWOOD | 47\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Unpacking “Performance”: Felicity Conditions, Efficacy, and Indexicals in Islamic Actions\u003cbr\u003e JOHN R. BOWEN | 106\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003e“Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame”: How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate\u003cbr\u003e BRUNO LATOUR | 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eDorsal Monuments: Messiaen, Sellars, and Saint Francis\u003cbr\u003e SANDER VAN MAAS | 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII . EMBODIMENT AND MATERIALI TY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eFrom Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India\u003cbr\u003e WENDY DONIGER | 173\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street\u003cbr\u003e JUDITH BUTLER | 194\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eDivine Impersonations: Transgressive Gestures in Hindu Devotion\u003cbr\u003e ROKUS DE GROOT | 215\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. \u003c\/b\u003eIslamic Dress and Fashion: A Religious and a Sartorial Practice Revisited\u003cbr\u003e ANNELIES MOORS | 235\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9.\u003c\/b\u003e On Spirit Writing: Materialities of Language and the Religious Work of Transduction\u003cbr\u003e WEBB KEANE | 249\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIII . EVERYDAY RELIGION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e The Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly Trajectories\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS A. TWEED | 279\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11. \u003c\/b\u003eRhythms of Roots: Identity Politics in Religious Dance Processions in Bolivia\u003cbr\u003e SANNE DERKS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, AND WILLY JANSEN | 303\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e12.\u003c\/b\u003e State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr\u003cbr\u003e UMUT AZAK | 322\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e13.\u003c\/b\u003e Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam\u003cbr\u003e SAMULI SCHIELKE | 348\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIV. TRANSGRESSIVE ACTS: HERESY AND BLASPHEMY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e14.\u003c\/b\u003e Eventual Blasphemies: Setting the Offensive Work of Art in Time\u003cbr\u003e S. BRENT PLATE | 375\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e15. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Political Gesture of “Blasphemous” Art: Facing Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer\u003cbr\u003e ANNE-MARIE KORTE | 391\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e16.\u003c\/b\u003e On Silencing and Public Debates about Religiously Offensive Acts\u003cbr\u003e CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER | 417\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e17. \u003c\/b\u003eOffending Muslims: Provocation, Blasphemy, and Public Debate in the Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e MARTIJN DE KONING | 445\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eV. VIOLENT RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSACRIFICE AND MARTYRDOM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e18. \u003c\/b\u003eSacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Meditations from Sakalava Mythopraxis\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL LAMBEK | 475\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e19.\u003c\/b\u003e The Mass and the Theater: Othello and Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e REGINA M. SCHWARTZ | 502\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e20. \u003c\/b\u003eMartyrdom, Religion, and Nation in Kurdish Literature\u003cbr\u003e MARIWAN KANIE | 524\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e21. \u003c\/b\u003eSuicide Terrorism and the Modern Nation-State: Antiliberal Protest or Biopolitical Performance?\u003cbr\u003e MICHIEL LEEZENBERG | 546\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eVI . SECULARISM AND POSTSECULARISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e22.\u003c\/b\u003e Good Religion, Bad Religion: Beyond the Secularity-Religion and Secularity-Piety Binaries\u003cbr\u003e YOLANDE JANSEN | 579\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e23.\u003c\/b\u003e Human Rights, Muslim Communities, and the Unintentional Secularization of Canada\u003cbr\u003e ALI HASSAN ZAIDI | 605\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e24.\u003c\/b\u003e The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism\u003cbr\u003e RAJEEV BHARGAVA | 623\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e | 651\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e| 657\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406167089495,"sku":"9780823299621","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823299621.jpg?v=1730494764","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gestures-9780823299621","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}