Introduction: The matter of belief? / David Morgan
pt. I. Theory. Body and mind : material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey / Jojada Verrips
Object theory : toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion / Gordon Lynch
Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions / David Morgan
pt. II. Sensation. Tactility and transcendence : epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities / Mary Nooter Roberts
The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner : body, belief, and the practice of chod / Laura Harrington
pt. III. Things. Tempering "the tyranny of the already" : re-signification and the migration of images / Allen F. Roberts
Out of this world : the materiality of the beyond / Jeremy Biles
"Dolls are scary" : the locus of the spiritual in contemporary Japanese homes / Inge Daniels
pt. IV. Spaces. Staging baroque worship in Brazil / Jens Baumgarten
Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education building / Gretchen T. Buggeln
Materializing ancestor spirits : name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea / Insoo Cho
pt. V. Performance. Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens
Dressing the Ka'ba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor
Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell
