Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala : : Religion That Matters / / edited by Fouad Gehad Marei, Yafa Shanneik, Christian Funke.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 179
• TeilnehmendeR: Marei, Fouad Gehad,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 179.; Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (425 pages)

This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and geographic contexts.It engages with conceptual debates and makes several propositions that push the frontiers of scholarship on Islamic and Religious Studies, Material Religion, Heritage Studies, and Anthropology and Sociology of Religion.The contributions presented in this volume 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. The volume posits that materialities of religion are integral to processes of heritagization shaped by competing social and political actors involved in the construction and canonization of religious—in this case, Shiʿi—heritage.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction Religion That Matters: Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala -- Part 1 The Visuality and Aurality of Shiʿi Materiality -- Chapter 1 The Literal and the Hidden Some Bektashi Religious Materialities -- Chapter 2 Mediated Devotion Sound and Media in Transnational Azeri-Turkish Twelver Shiʿism -- Chapter 3 Sonic Messages Hizbullah's Mawlid an-Nabi Celebrations in Lebanon -- Chapter 4 Materializing Cultural Memory From Wartime Eulogies to Panegyric Pop in Contemporary Iran -- Part 2 Gendered Perspectives on Shiʿi Materiality -- Chapter 5 Affective Consanguinity Blood, Mothers and Martyrs on the Battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War -- Chapter 6 Zur-khane A Material Approach to the Embodiment of Twelver Shiʿi Male Virtue Ethics -- Chapter 7 Khidma: In the Service of Ahl al-Bayt Gender, Agency and Social Capital in Shiʿi Religious Statue Art in Kuwait -- Chapter 8 A Price for a Wife or a Token of Love? Negotiating the Materiality of Mahr in Diasporic Shiʿi Marriage -- Part 3 Sacred Objects and the Materiality of Shiʿi Life-Worlds -- Chapter 9 Turbat al-Husayn Development of a Tabarruk Ritual in Early Shiʿi Community -- Chapter 10 The Place of Material Objects in the Alawi Ziyāra -- Chapter 11 Festive Illumination, Prayers, and Grave Visitation Jashn-i Nisf Shaʿban in Kashmir -- Chapter 12 Wishing Trees and Whirling Rocks Eco-material Rituals at the Alevi Shrine of Abdal Musa -- Index.