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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations | xiii
List of Credits | xv
Preface | xvii
Introduction: Practice Turns in the Study of Religion
MICHIEL LEEZENBERG | 1
I . RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY
1. Gesturing Toward Sacrifice: Aping the Scapegoat and Monkeying Around with the Lamb
YVONNE SHERWOOD | 47
2. Unpacking “Performance”: Felicity Conditions, Efficacy, and Indexicals in Islamic Actions
JOHN R. BOWEN | 106
3. “Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame”: How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate
BRUNO LATOUR | 119
4. Dorsal Monuments: Messiaen, Sellars, and Saint Francis
SANDER VAN MAAS | 141
II . EMBODIMENT AND MATERIALI TY
5. From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India
WENDY DONIGER | 173
6. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street
JUDITH BUTLER | 194
7. Divine Impersonations: Transgressive Gestures in Hindu Devotion
ROKUS DE GROOT | 215
8. Islamic Dress and Fashion: A Religious and a Sartorial Practice Revisited
ANNELIES MOORS | 235
9. On Spirit Writing: Materialities of Language and the Religious Work of Transduction
WEBB KEANE | 249
III . EVERYDAY RELIGION
10. The Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly Trajectories
THOMAS A. TWEED | 279
11. Rhythms of Roots: Identity Politics in Religious Dance Processions in Bolivia
SANNE DERKS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, AND WILLY JANSEN | 303
12. State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr
UMUT AZAK | 322
13. Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam
SAMULI SCHIELKE | 348
IV. TRANSGRESSIVE ACTS: HERESY AND BLASPHEMY
14. Eventual Blasphemies: Setting the Offensive Work of Art in Time
S. BRENT PLATE | 375
15. The Political Gesture of “Blasphemous” Art: Facing Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer
ANNE-MARIE KORTE | 391
16. On Silencing and Public Debates about Religiously Offensive Acts
CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER | 417
17. Offending Muslims: Provocation, Blasphemy, and Public Debate in the Netherlands
MARTIJN DE KONING | 445
V. VIOLENT RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES: SACRIFICE AND MARTYRDOM
18. Sacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Meditations from Sakalava Mythopraxis
MICHAEL LAMBEK | 475
19. The Mass and the Theater: Othello and Sacrifice
REGINA M. SCHWARTZ | 502
20. Martyrdom, Religion, and Nation in Kurdish Literature
MARIWAN KANIE | 524
21. Suicide Terrorism and the Modern Nation-State: Antiliberal Protest or Biopolitical Performance?
MICHIEL LEEZENBERG | 546
VI . SECULARISM AND POSTSECULARISM
22. Good Religion, Bad Religion: Beyond the Secularity-Religion and Secularity-Piety Binaries
YOLANDE JANSEN | 579
23. Human Rights, Muslim Communities, and the Unintentional Secularization of Canada
ALI HASSAN ZAIDI | 605
24. The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism
RAJEEV BHARGAVA | 623
List of Contributors | 651
Index | 657
