Objects and Archives in Global Catholic Cultures

Movement and Materiality

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

529 kr

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Breaking new ground in the growing field of global Catholicism, this unique volume explores the various ways in which objects facilitated, impeded, and sometimes rerouted Catholicism’s movement across geographic space and through historical time. Objects and Archives in Global Catholic Cultures examines the cultural and physical mobility of Catholicism through the media of objects and archives. Bringing together fifteen essays from a range of disciplines, including art history, history, museum studies, religious studies, and sociology, the volume explores the pivotal role of material things—ranging from refined artworks, relics, and books to everyday items—in shaping encounters between Catholicism and diverse local cultures from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. Resisting linear narratives of Catholicism’s expansion from a Roman center to global peripheries, the essays foreground the ways local communities appropriated, transformed, resisted, and reimagined Catholicism within their own cultural frameworks. As objects move, they translate meanings, disrupt boundaries, and generate new forms of religious life. By attending to the agency of objects and the afterlives of archives, this volume offers a richly textured account of global Catholicism as a network of exchanges shaped by movement, materiality, and local adaptation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2027-03-23
Mått152 x 229 x 29 mm
Vikt349 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN9780826370655

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Mary Dunn is a professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. Her books include Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds and The Cruelest of All Mothers: Marie de l’Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition. Anna Katharina Rudolph is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Global Catholic Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Rewriting History and the Myth of the French Nation: The Hagiography of Radegund of Poitiers from Medieval to Modernity.

“This fascinating collection examines Catholicism around the world and across time by focusing on objects that people deemed meaningful and powerful enough to carry and send huge distances, including relics, garments, icons, photographs, postcards, and pamphlets. Readers will come away with an understanding of the important role of material culture in building a complex and multicentric global Catholicism.” - Merry Wiesner-Hanks, editor in chief of The Cambridge World History“This meticulously researched volume offers an exciting overview of the many and diverse ways current scholars are doing global history, using Catholic archives and objects in motion to both build and interrogate connections. Whether it is pennies, body parts, holy vestments, wooden tablets, postcards, digital images, or curiosity about religion and imperialism that calls a reader to this anthology, they will emerge with a greater respect for how objects, and the scholars and people who interact with them, can resist and reimagine the world.” - Karin Vélez, associate professor at Macalester College