The Lives of Objects - Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity (Paperback)

Our lives are filled with objects-ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh perspective on objects, looking beyond physical material to consider how collective imagination shapes the formation of objects and the experience of reality. Bringing a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of material culture, she examines objects of attachment-relationships, ideas, and beliefs that live on in the psyche-and illustrates how people across time have anchored value systems to the materiality of life. Engaging with classical studies, history, anthropology, and literary, gender, and queer studies, Kotrosits shows how these disciplines address historical knowledge and how an expanded definition of materiality can help us make connections between antiquity and the contemporary world.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Maia Kotrosits
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-70758-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion Books > Christianity
LSN:	0-226-70758-X
Barcode:	9780226707587

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