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Book SynopsisHow do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and violence experienced by religious groups? This volume explores relations between materiality, religion, and violence by drawing upon two fields of scholarship that have rarely engaged with one another: research on religion and (violent) conflict and the material turn within religious studies. This way, this volume sets the stage for the development of new conceptual and methodological directions in the study of religion-related violent conflict that takes materiality seriously.
Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Material Religion, Conflict, and Violence Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema 2 Accessing Things of Conflicts Poking Anthropology with Guns, Martyrdom, and Religion Younes Saramifar 3 Material Politics, Violence, and Religion A Comparative Study of Islam and Buddhism in the People’s Republic of China Daan F. Oostveen 4 Bypassing the Bulldozer The Materiality of State Violence on Religion in Kibera, Nairobi Tammy Wilks 5 When Times Are Out of Joint Contestations of Official Temporal Religious Forms Christoph Baumgartner 6 Witchcraft, Terrorism, and ‘Things of Conflict’ in Coastal Kenya Erik Meinema 7 What’s in That Picture? Humanitarian Photographs and the Christian Iconography of Suffering and Violence Lucien van Liere 8 The Significance of Materiality in Conflict Analysis, Healing, and Reconciliation Joram Tarusarira 9 A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue Muslims and Jews Expressing Interfaith Solidarity in Response to the Paris and Copenhagen Attacks Margaretha A. van Es Afterword Things for Thought Birgit Meyer Index
