Thinking Religion Through Things

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" Thinking Religion Through Things "
Peter J. Bräunlein

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077905
Doc. No	:	LA121534
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341364‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Peter J. Bräunlein
Title & Author	:	Thinking Religion Through Things [Article]\ Peter J. Bräunlein
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Method Theory in the Study of Religion
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	28/4-5
Page No	:	365–399
Abstract	:	In recent years, the “material turn” has gained prominence in the humanities and social sciences, and it has also stimulated a shift toward a rediscovery of materiality in the scientific study of religion\s. The material turn aims to dissolve conventional dichotomies and, by emphasizing the concept of assemblage, insists that humans and things are fundamentally co-constitutive. This “New Materialism” addresses ontological alterity, and it radically decenters static anthropocentric arrangements and the position of the human subject as such. The insider–outsider distinction, however, as well as the emic–etic categorization, are based on fundamental dichotomies between the researcher and the researched, and between descriptive and analytical understandings of human beings. This article discusses the possibility and significance of a non-anthropocentric approach to religion, and examines to what extent it is analytically helpful to apply the insider–outsider and emic–etic distinctions while pursuing the goal of dissolving hierarchical and binary thinking. It furthermore argues that these issues can be properly answered only with reference to their methodological implications.
Descriptor	:	assemblage
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	material religion
Descriptor	:	material turn
Descriptor	:	methodological ludism
Descriptor	:	New Materialism
Descriptor	:	ontological turn
Descriptor	:	Posthumanism
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	semiotic ideologies
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341364‬