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020			_a9781441110282 (hardback)
020			_z9781441126177 (epub)
020			_z9781441164230 (epdf)
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050	0	0	_aBL473.5 _b.W45 2013
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100	1		_aWhitehead, Amy, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aReligious statues and personhood : _btesting the role of materiality / _cAmy Whitehead.
264		1	_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bBloomsbury, _c2013.
300			_axii, 198 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction2. Defining Terms3. The Virgin of Alcala de los Gazules4. The Glastonbury Goddess, England5. Relationships, Relating, Relationality6. Gift, Value and the Fetish: Testing the Roles of OfferingsConclusionBibliographyIndex.
520			_a"Objects such as statues and icons have long been problematic in the study of religion, especially in European Christianities. Through examining two groups, the contemporary Pagan Glastonbury Goddess religion in the Southwest of England and a cult of the Virgin Mary in Andalusia, Spain, Amy Whitehead asserts that objects can be more than representational or symbolic. In the context of increasing academic interest in materiality in religions and cultures, she shows how statues, or 'things', are not always interacted with as if they are inert material against which we typically define ourselves as 'modern' humans.Bringing two distinct cultures and religions into tension, animism and 'the fetish' are used as ways in which to think about how humans interact with religious statues in Western Europe and beyond. Both theoretical and descriptive, the book illustrates how religions and cultural practices can be re-examined as performances that necessarily involve not only human persons, but also objects"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Demonstrates how the relationships that devotees have with statue forms of the divine feminine illustrate the powerful relational roles of matter and materiality in religion"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aGoddesses.
650		0	_aIdols and images _xWorship.
650		0	_aStatues _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aWomen in art _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aMatter _xReligious aspects.
650		7	_aRELIGION / General. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aGlastonbury (England) _xReligious life and customs.
651		0	_aAlcalá de los Gazules (Spain) _xReligious life and customs.
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