(ED.)
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala
Religion That Matters
Brill, 2024
Serie: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 179
424 p.
Examining manifestations and transformations of multi-sensorial expressions and experiences of Shiʿi Islam, Shiʿi Materiality beyond Karbala demonstrate how material things and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and how they act as links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly.
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