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| List of illustrations | p. vii |
| List of contributors | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction: the matter of belief | p. 1 |
| Theory | p. 19 |
| Body and mind: material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey | p. 21 |
| Object theory: toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion | p. 40 |
| Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions | p. 55 |
| Sensation | p. 75 |
| Tactility and transcendence: epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities | p. 77 |
| The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner? Body, belief, and the practice of chod | p. 97 |
| Things | p. 113 |
| Tempering "the tyranny of already": re-signification and the migration of images | p. 115 |
| Out of this world: the materiality of the beyond | p. 135 |
| "Dolls are scary": the locus of the spiritual in contemporary Japanese homes | p. 153 |
| Spaces | p. 171 |
| Staging Baroque worship in Brazil | p. 173 |
| Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education buildings | p. 193 |
| Materializing ancestor spirits: name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea | p. 214 |
| Performance | p. 229 |
| Clothing as embodied experience of belief | p. 231 |
| Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo: the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca | p. 247 |
| Performing statues | p. 262 |
| Works cited | p. 277 |
| Index | p. 301 |
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