Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Materiality and Religious History....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Objects of Transcendence: Scots Protestantism and an Anthropology of Things....Pages 17-35
The Material and Visual Culture of the Construction of Irish Catholic Identity: St. Colman’s Cathedral, Queenstown, County Cork....Pages 37-55
Sanctifying the Street: Urban Space, Material Christianity, and the G. F. Watts Mosaic in London, 1883 to the Present Day....Pages 57-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Fashioning Church Interiors: The Importance of Female Amateur Designers....Pages 77-99
Sounds Taken for Wonders: Revivalism and Religious Hybridity in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement....Pages 101-123
Early Victorian Moral Anxiety and the Queer Legacy of the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Revival....Pages 125-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Interfaith Home Decorating: An Exploration of Religiosity and Home Artifacts within British Interfaith Hybrid Coupledom....Pages 147-163
Skin as Spiritual Script: Tibetan Buddhism, Tattoos, and the West....Pages 165-183
An Ancient Modernity: Ikons and the Re-emergence of Orthodox Britain....Pages 185-207
An English Shade of Animism: Contemporary Statue Devotion and the Glastonbury Goddess Temple....Pages 209-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-240