Sacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions

Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions.

Sacred Matters explores the lives of material objects in South Asian religions. Spanning a range of traditions including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the book demonstrates how sacred items influence and enliven the worlds of religious participants across South Asia and into the diaspora. Contributors examine a variety of objects to describe the ways sacred materi...