Introduction: The matter of belief? / by David Morgan
Theory
Body and mind : material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey / Jojada Verrips
Object theory : toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion / Gordon Lynch
Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions / David Morgan
Sensation
Tactility and transcendence : epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities / Mary Nooter Roberts
The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner : body, belief, and the practice of Chod / Laura Harrington
Things
Tempering the tyranny of the already : re-signification and the migration of images / Allen F. Roberts
Out of this world : the materiality of the beyond / Jeremy Biles
The material culture of Japanese domesticity / Inge Daniels
Spaces
Staging baroque worship in Brazil / Jens Baumgarten
Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education building / Gretchen T. Buggeln
Materializing ancestor spirits : name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea / Insoo Cho
Performance
Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens
Dressing the Kaba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor
Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell.
Religion and material culture : the matter of belief. ISBN 9780415481168. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.