Digital Humanities and Material Religion: An Introduction

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Digital Humanities and Material Religion

An Introduction

Edited by: Emily Suzanne Clark and Rachel McBride Lindsey

In the series Introductions to Digital Humanities – Religion

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110608755

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About this book

Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?
Its chapters address a range of processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization, embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the material shape religious life.
Collectively, the volume demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny required of the humanities in the digital age.

Author / Editor information

Emily Suzanne Clark, Gonzaga University, Spokane and Rachel McBride Lindsey, Saint Louis University, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Chapter 1. Digital Materiality: Possibilities of Interpretive Frameworks in the Academic Study of Religion Emily Suzanne Clark and Rachel McBride Lindsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Emerging Frameworks of Digital Materiality
Chapter 2. Promiscuous Affiliation: Evangelical Women, Biblical Mediation and Digital Infrastructures of Conversion Suzanne van Geuns and Pamela E. Klassen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3. Digital Scriptures, Material Religion, and the Digital Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Curating Digitized Sacred Texts Online Arjun Sabharwal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Part 2. How the Material Becomes Digital: Methods in Digital Material Religion
Chapter 4. Visiting Religious Spaces in the Digital Realm: The MAVCOR Digital Spaces Project in Historical Context Emily C. Floyd and Meg Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 5. Balinese Religio-cultural Imaginaries and Rituals of Digital Materiality Urmila Mohan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part 3. Intersections of the Digital and Material: Tools, Questions, and Processes
Chapter 6. Material, Maternal, Embodied, and Digital: Objects and Practices in Natural Parenting Florence Pasche Guignard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 7. (Re)Enchanting the Digital: Technological Manifestations of Baraka James Edmonds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 8. Beyond Recognition? Orphan Objects, Decolonization, and Religious Histories of the Spanish Americas Barbara E. Mundy and Dana Leibsohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Conclusion. Challenges and Possibilities in Digital Humanities and Material Religion Emily Suzanne Clark and Rachel McBride Lindsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of material religion and the digital humanities
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 212
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 18
Keywords: Digital humanities; digital religion; material religion; material culture

eBook

Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110608755

Paperback

Published: April 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110604658