Art and Lived Religion

Karen E. McCluskey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Her research investigates how art shapes and is shaped by lived experience. Recent publications: New Saints in Late-Mediaeval Venice (2020).Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor of History at Tampere University, Finland. She works on the history of religious conflicts and witchcraft in early modern Europe and experience as an approach to history. Recent publications include Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (co-authored with Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, 2021, Routledge) and Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion (co-edited with Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, 2022).

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Art and Lived Religion Karen E. McCluskey and Raisa Maria ToivoLived Religion at the Site of the ImageCh 1 Objects of Lived Religion: Medieval Birthing Amulets in Nordic CountriesHólmfríður SveinsdóttirCh 2 The Art of Seeing: St Christopher in Early Modern VeniceKaren McCluskeyCh 3 Lived Religion in Medieval India: Surasundari on Indian Temple Architecture Neha KhetrapalCh 4 Interacting with Sacred Images at the Multi-Confessional Borderland: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.Tomasz WiśliczLived Religion at the Site of ProductionCh 5 Created Through God: Lived Religion and Early Modern ArtmakingElizabeth Burns-DansCh 6 Authors of Reliquaries: Makers and Commissioners in the Medieval NorthSofia LahtiCh 7 Early Modern Illustrated Miracle Books and Embodied Experiences of the SacredJenni KuulialaLived Religion at the Site of CirculationCh 8 Haptic Encounters: the Ritual Practice of Dressing Religious Images in Sacred and Secular ContextsZuleika MuratCh 9 Worshipping the Ugly Goddess: Image and Devotion in the Aztec WorldPatrizia GranzieraCh 10 Unseen Angels and Ambiguous Experiences of Lived Religion in Early Modern Finland Raisa ToivoLived Religion at the Site of AudiencingCh 11 Experiencing the Pizzicaiuoli Altarpiece in Fifteenth-Century SienaSusan NolanCh 12 Chasing Miracles: Practices and Objects of the Disabled in the Venetian Terraferma Silvia CarraroCh 13 The Rich Man and the Prostitute in Moissac: the Public Function of Romanesque SculptureAna MunkConclusions and Observations Karen E. McCluskey and Raisa Maria Toivo