Material Religion

Museology and the Sacred

God is Big in Africa: Pentecostal Mega Churches and a Changing Religious Landscape

Christianity and the Limits of Materiality

Buildings and Bibles Between Profanization and Sacralization: Semiotic Ambivalence in the Protestant Dutch Bible Belt

Two Ways of Thinking About New Materialism

“Stitch for Stitch, You Are Remembering”: Knitting and Crochet as Material Memorialization

The Commemoration Service on the Occasion of the third Repatriation of Human Remains from former German South-West Africa on the 29th of August 2018 at Franzosische Friedrichstadtkirche, Berlin

Altars of Ammo: Catholic Materiality and the Visual Culture of World War II

Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image

A Communion of Shadows

What is the Power of Relics? An Exhibition at Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht

The Skin of an Indian: Texts, Bodies, Material Religion

A Tale of Two Façades: Archaeology and the Secularization of an Islamic Past

The Stone of Mount Tai: Shigandang Worship in Northern China and the Power of Symbols

Pilgrimage and Visual Genre: The Architecture of Twentieth-Century Roman Catholic Pilgrimage in Scotland

Shinnyo-En and the Formulation of a New Esoteric Iconography

100 Histories of the World in One Object: Itineraries, Islam and Indices

Islam and European museums: A Babylonian confusion of tongues

Wearing Divine Words: In Life and Death

Opening Doors: The King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Chapels of England, Buildings of Protestant Nonconformity

The Transformative Power of Food: The “Milk Mothers” in Sri Lankan Buddhism

Pixelating the Sacred: Digital and Mechanical Reproduction and the Orthodox Christian Icon in the United States

Beyond the Object: An Anatolian Prayer Rug in a Fifteenth-Century Venetian Painting

Diversifying Islam and the Museum

Heritage Itineraries

Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church

A Careful Balance: Materialist Concern Meets Spiritual Function in Balkh, Afghanistan

Studying Material Religion from a Non-Anthropocentric Perspective? Some Considerations on New Materialisms

The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak: Embodied Transcendence and Sacred Spectatorship in The Robe (1953)

Islam, Museums, and the Politics of Representation in the West

Divination and its Potential Futures: Sensation, Scripts, and the Virtual in South Korean Eight-character Fortune Telling

Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World: Christian Identity and Practice under Muslim Rule

Objects of Faith: 3D Modeling and Printing U.S. Religious History

Coins, Beads, and Necklaces: On Light, Brilliance, and Sacredness in the Northern Andes

The Museum of the Bible’s “Fake” History of the Bible

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Domesticating Buddha: Making a Place for Japanese Buddhist Altars (Butsudan) in Western Homes

“Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft,” Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 31 August 2018–6 January 2019

The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Heritage, Islam, and the Vernacular

New Frames to Islam in European Museums

Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion

The Sacred Lineage of the Uk’s new Holocaust Memorial

“The Right to Shrine”: Global Celebrity, Colonial Logics, and Local Knowledge in Aspen’s Mountainside Memorials

Bringing Students to the Objects: Reflections on the Exhibition of Bones and Other Animate Matter

The Power of Fabrication: Reflections on Curating Balinese Textiles