Religion: Material Dynamics

Author/Contributor(s):	Chidester, David
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	04/20/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"This book is a master course in the imagination of matter. Playful, smart, analogical, funny, David Chidester engages what Clifford Geertz once called a social history of the imagination. Rather than offer a synthesis of the 'new materialism' (as it has come to be called), Chidester suggests that Religious Studies has been doing the new materialism since its inception."--John Modern, Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
"As one might expect from David Chidester's scholarship, this book is another intelligent, creative approach to the study of religion. Certain elements that have been part of his work for years find their way here into a very mature working out of the components of the contemporary study of religion. Chidester advances a particular materiality of religion yet goes further by making materiality central to understanding the construction of religious systems themselves."--S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College