{"product_id":"religious-statues-and-personhood-amy-whitehead-9781474228565","title":"Religious Statues and Personhood","description":"Objects such as statues and icons have long been problematic in the study of religion, especially in European Christianities. Through examining two groups, the contemporary Pagan Glastonbury Goddess religion in the Southwest of England and a cult of the Virgin Mary in Andalusia, Spain, Amy Whitehead asserts that objects can be more than representational or symbolic. In the context of increasing academic interest in materiality in religions and cultures, she shows how statues, or 'things', are not always interacted with as if they are inert material against which we typically define ourselves as 'modern' humans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing two distinct cultures and religions into tension, animism and 'the fetish' are used as ways in which to think about how humans interact with religious statues in Western Europe and beyond. Both theoretical and descriptive, the book illustrates how religions and cultural practices can be re-examined as performances that necessarily involve not only human persons, but also objects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Whitehead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474228569\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474228565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continnuum-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d","brand":"Amy Whitehead","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44065828831487,"sku":"9781474228565","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82db241c-aab9-4a5b-84da-862a56e3cee4.jpg?v=1685403741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/religious-statues-and-personhood-amy-whitehead-9781474228565","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}