Objects, object-ness, and shadows of meanings: carving prayer beads and exploring their materiality alongside a Khaksari Sufi Murshid
Prayer beads, through processes of craftsmanship and trade, arrive at meanings, significations, and imaginative associations that are inscribed by religious-cultural codes or social networks. The shadows of meanings overwhelm their material existence as prayer beads despite their lives beginning bef...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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Material religion
Jahr: 2018, Band: 14, Heft: 3, Seiten: 368-388 |
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Iran
/ Khāksār
/ Gebetsschnur
/ Heiliger Gegenstand
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion BJ Islam |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
anthropology of materiality
B Islam B objectness B speculative realism B object-oriented ontology B Sufism B Rosary B Surplus B OOO |
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Zusammenfassung: | Prayer beads, through processes of craftsmanship and trade, arrive at meanings, significations, and imaginative associations that are inscribed by religious-cultural codes or social networks. The shadows of meanings overwhelm their material existence as prayer beads despite their lives beginning before their enactment within the socio-cultural and religious networks. Therefore, alongside an Iranian Sufi murshid, I follow the object-ness and the life of rosaries and prayer beads in an "apprenticeship ethnographic" journey. I address the material life of rosaries to explain how their object-ness contributes to their materiality and meaning formation that they gain in a Sufi order. An approach informed by speculative realism and object-oriented ontology (OOO) is chosen to examine what it means to study a religious object-in-itself. I follow the religiously loaded object and its spiritual traces by way of OOO to forgo the meanings and relationships that shadow the objects. |
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ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2018.1487765 |