The spirit of matter : religion, modernity, and the power of objects
Peter Pels
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
| Omfang | xvi, 371 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The auto-icon, or, What a secularist relic says about modern dematerializations -- Towards a methodology of the concrete, or, Rematerializing material culture studies -- Part II. Fetish and the fear of matter -- The spirit of matter : on fetish, rarity, fact and fancy -- The modern fear of matter : reflections on the Protestantism of Victorian science -- Partt III. Do Catholics see things differently? -- Trophy and wonder, or, Bodies at the exhibition -- Africa Christo! : the materiality of photographs in Dutch Catholic mission propaganda, 1946-1960 -- "I am Black, but comely" : mission, modernity and the power of objects in the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal -- Conclusion : the powers of miming "Africa" -- Part IV. The time of things -- Things in time : commodity fetishism before advertising -- False consciousness? : the rise of advertising -- In lieu of a conclusion : the future of things.. - "A range of meaningful objects-exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers-demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their 'life'. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of 'mind over matter'. It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history"--
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| ISBN | 9781805390145
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