Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004523791 |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 2022 - 2022 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 2 |
| Impact factor | 0.8 |
| h-index | 1 |
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and violence experienced by religious groups? This volume explores relations between materiality, religion, and violence by drawing upon two fields of scholarship that have rarely engaged with one another: research on religion and (violent) conflict and the material turn within religious studies. This way, this volume sets the stage for the development of new conceptual and methodological directions in the study of religion-related violent conflict that takes materiality seriously
Witchcraft, Terrorism, and ‘Things of Conflict’ in Coastal Kenya
This chapter focuses on the coastal Kenyan town of Malindi, where concerns about witchcraft and terrorism reflect and inform tensions and conflicts, which sometimes result in violence. The chapter argues that discourses about witchcraft and terrorism both provide a way of speaking about hidden enemies who are thought to covertly plot violence that disrupts social relations from within. State actors and others often attempt to expose these hidden …
What’s in That Picture
How do photographs and videos of suffering human bodies shock, appeal and move, and how do they shape understandings of violence and conflict? This chapter studies how we look at photographs and explores the argument that in western contexts, humanitarian and atrocity photography are deeply influenced by Christian iconographies of meaningful suffering. With ‘Christian iconographies’ this chapter refers to visual images that are symbolically ‘poss…
A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue
This chapter stresses the importance of a material approach to the study of peace and conflict, by means of a case study of the Ring of Peace: an interreligious public event that was organized by young Muslims in Oslo, Norway, in response to terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen in 2015. It brings together insights from the fields of material religion and affect studies to explore the relationship between materiality, sensorial experiences, a…
Bypassing the Bulldozer
This chapter examines what is unearthed, unmade, and left unprocessed after bulldozers destroy the places of worship and ancestral land of religious communities Nairobi in order to erect a bypass road. It shows that because these things – the bypass road and bulldozers – derive from and belong to the Kenyan government, they illustrate the complicated ways that religious communities past and present, at once compete with and depend on the very thi…
Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and violence experienced by religious groups? This volume explores relations between materiality, religion, and violence by drawing upon two fields of scholarship that have rarely engaged with one another: research on religion and (vi…
Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and violence experienced by religious groups? This volume explores relations between materiality, religion, and violence by drawing upon two fields of scholarship that have rarely engaged with one another: research on religion and (vi…
Witchcraft, Terrorism, and ‘Things of Conflict’ in Coastal Kenya
This chapter focuses on the coastal Kenyan town of Malindi, where concerns about witchcraft and terrorism reflect and inform tensions and conflicts, which sometimes result in violence. The chapter argues that discourses about witchcraft and terrorism both provide a way of speaking about hidden enemies who are thought to covertly plot violence that disrupts social relations from within. State actors and others often attempt to expose these hidden …
What’s in That Picture
How do photographs and videos of suffering human bodies shock, appeal and move, and how do they shape understandings of violence and conflict? This chapter studies how we look at photographs and explores the argument that in western contexts, humanitarian and atrocity photography are deeply influenced by Christian iconographies of meaningful suffering. With ‘Christian iconographies’ this chapter refers to visual images that are symbolically ‘poss…
A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue
This chapter stresses the importance of a material approach to the study of peace and conflict, by means of a case study of the Ring of Peace: an interreligious public event that was organized by young Muslims in Oslo, Norway, in response to terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen in 2015. It brings together insights from the fields of material religion and affect studies to explore the relationship between materiality, sensorial experiences, a…
Bypassing the Bulldozer
This chapter examines what is unearthed, unmade, and left unprocessed after bulldozers destroy the places of worship and ancestral land of religious communities Nairobi in order to erect a bypass road. It shows that because these things – the bypass road and bulldozers – derive from and belong to the Kenyan government, they illustrate the complicated ways that religious communities past and present, at once compete with and depend on the very thi…
Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and violence experienced by religious groups? This volume explores relations between materiality, religion, and violence by drawing upon two fields of scholarship that have rarely engaged with one another: research on religion and (vi…