Overview
- Crosses the divide between the history of medieval and early modern Europe, the history of the Americas, and the philosophy of religion
- Adds significantly to current work on the material dimensions of Christianity
- Is relevant to cultural and church history, the history of religion, theology, art history, cultural anthropology, continental philosophy, and the philosophy of religion
Part of the book series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures (SCPT, volume 32)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- European Art History
- Material Culture
- Materialism and Religion
- Medieval Religion
- Philosophy of Religion
- Process Philosophy (or Theology)
- Scientific Revolution
- Cimabue’s True Cross in Arezzo
- Materiality in Christian Art
- Pieter Bruegel
- Ingold's Dwelling Perspective
- San Diego de Pamatácuaro
- Vegetarianism in Early Modern England
- Puritanism and Refinement in Early New Englan
- Pilgrimage at the El Retiro San Iñigo Labyrinth
- Panentheism
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susanna Elm is Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of History and Classics in the Department of History at the University of California at Berkeley. She has also recently served as the Hedi-Fitz-Niggli Professor at the University of Zürich. Her interests are the social, economic and cultural history of the later Roman empire. Her book, Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome, Berkeley 2012, focused on the common matrix shared by late Roman pagans and Christians, and her current project, Sold to Sin: Augustine of Hippo on Slavery, Taxation, and Original Sin, will examine economic impact on the formulation of theology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Material Christianity
Book Subtitle: Western Religion and the Agency of Things
Editors: Christopher Ocker, Susanna Elm
Series Title: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32018-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32017-1Published: 27 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32020-1Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32018-8Published: 26 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-1107
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1115
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 249
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Christianity, European History, History of the Americas