Material Religion in Modern Britain

Joe Webster, Downing College, University of Cambridge, UKAnn Wilson, Cork Institute of Technology, IrelandTimothy Carroll, University College London, UKJim Cheshire, University of Lincoln, UKKate Jordan, University College London, UKDominic Janes, Birkbeck, University of London, UKJames G. Mansell, University of Nottingham, UKJohn Harvey, Aberystwyth University, UKJill Sudbury, University of Oxford, UKAmy Whitehead, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UKCandace Hoffman-Hussain, Lancaster University, UKRichard Irvine, University of Cambridge, UKCrispin Paine, University College London, UKJacqueline R. deVries, Augsburg College, USA

• Introduction: Materiality and Religious History; Lucinda Matthews-Jones and Timothy Willem JonesPart I: Material Sectarianism1. Objects of Transcendence: Scots-Presbyterianism and an Anthropology of Things; Joe Webster2. The Material and Visual Culture of the Construction of Irish Catholic Identity: Saint Colman ' 's Cathedral, Queenstown, County Cork; Ann Wilson3. Sanctifying the Street: Urban Space, Material Christianity and the G. F. Watts Mosaic in London, 1883 to the Present Day; Lucinda Matthews-JonesPart II: Material Religion, Sex and Gender4. Fashioning Church Interiors: The Importance of Female Amateur Designers; Jim Cheshire5. Sounds Taken as Wonders: Revivalist Politics as Religious Experience in Early Twentieth-Century Britain; Jacqui de Vries6. Early Victorian Moral Anxiety and the Queer Legacy of the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Revival; Dominic JanesPart III: Material Religion in Postsecular Britain7. Interfaith Home Decorating: An Exploration of Religiosity and Home Artefacts within British Interfaith Hybrid Coupledom; Candace Hoffman-Hussain8. Skin as Spiritual Script: Tibetan Buddhism, Tattoos and the West; Jill Sudbury9. An Ancient Modernity: Ikons and the Re-emergence of Orthodox Britain; Timothy Carroll10. An English Shade of Animism: Contemporary Statue Devotion and the Glastonbury Goddess Temple; Amy Whitehead

'Material Religion in Modern Britain makes an important contribution to the history of British religion, breaking new ground in its focus upon material culture as a means by which to understand the tensions and complexities of the modern spiritual landscape. This is a very well-crafted and insightful collection of essays which will certainly deepen our understanding of the influence of material culture upon modern religious beliefs and practices.' - Sue Morgan, University of Chichester, UK