Gestures

Michiel Leezenberg (Edited By) Michiel Leezenberg teaches in the Departments of Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Classics at the University of Amsterdam and has published widely on the philosophy of the humanities, Islamic intellectual history, and the Kurdish question. His recent publications include (with Gerard de Vries) History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction (Amsterdam University Press, 2018), Sexuality and Politics in Islam (Prometheus, 2017), and Foucault (Athenaum, 2021).Anne-Marie Korte (Edited By) Anne-Marie Korte is professor of religion and gender at Utrecht University. She coedited (with Angela Berlis and Kune Biezeveld) Everyday Life and the Sacred: Re/configuring Gender Studies in Religion (Brill, 2017); (with Christiane Kruse and Birgit Meyer) Taking Offense: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations (Fink Verlag, 2018); and (with Mariecke van den Berg, Lieke Schrijvers, and Jelle Wiering) Transforming Bodies: Religions, Powers and Agencies in Europe (New York: Routledge, 2020).Martin M. van Bruinessen (Edited By) Martin van Bruinessen is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. He is the editor of Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Explaining the 'Conservative Turn' (Institute of South East Asian Studies, 2013) and (with Stefano Allievi) of Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe (Routledge, 2011).

• List of Illustrations xiiiList of Credits xvPreface xviiIntroduction: Practice Turns in the Study of ReligionMICHIEL LEEZENBERG 1I . RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY1. Gesturing Toward Sacrifice: Aping the Scapegoat and Monkeying Around with the LambYVONNE SHERWOOD 472. Unpacking "Performance": Felicity Conditions, Efficacy, and Indexicals in Islamic ActionsJOHN R. BOWEN 1063. "Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame": How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion DebateBRUNO LATOUR 1194. Dorsal Monuments: Messiaen, Sellars, and Saint FrancisSANDER VAN MAAS 141II . EMBODIMENT AND MATERIALI TY5. From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary IndiaWENDY DONIGER 1736. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the StreetJUDITH BUTLER 1947. Divine Impersonations: Transgressive Gestures in Hindu DevotionROKUS DE GROOT 2158. Islamic Dress and Fashion: A Religious and a Sartorial Practice RevisitedANNELIES MOORS 2359. On Spirit Writing: Materialities of Language and the Religious Work of TransductionWEBB KEANE 249III . EVERYDAY RELIGION10. The Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly TrajectoriesTHOMAS A. TWEED 27911. Rhythms of Roots: Identity Politics in Religious Dance Processions in BoliviaSANNE DERKS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, AND WILLY JANSEN 30312. State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the MartyrUMUT AZAK 32213. Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of IslamSAMULI SCHIELKE 348IV. TRANSGRESSIVE ACTS: HERESY AND BLASPHEMY14. Eventual Blasphemies: Setting the Offensive Work of Art in TimeS. BRENT PLATE 37515. The Political Gesture of "Blasphemous" Art: Facing Pussy Riot's Punk PrayerANNE-MARIE KORTE 39116. On Silencing and Public Debates about Religiously Offensive ActsCHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER 41717. Offending Muslims: Provocation, Blasphemy, and Public Debate in the NetherlandsMARTIJN DE KONING 445V. VIOLENT RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES: SACRIFICE AND MARTYRDOM18. Sacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Meditations from Sakalava MythopraxisMICHAEL LAMBEK 47519. The Mass and the Theater: Othello and SacrificeREGINA M. SCHWARTZ 50220. Martyrdom, Religion, and Nation in Kurdish LiteratureMARIWAN KANIE 52421. Suicide Terrorism and the Modern Nation-State: Antiliberal Protest or Biopolitical Performance?MICHIEL LEEZENBERG 546VI . SECULARISM AND POSTSECULARISM22. Good Religion, Bad Religion: Beyond the Secularity-Religion and Secularity-Piety BinariesYOLANDE JANSEN 57923. Human Rights, Muslim Communities, and the Unintentional Secularization of CanadaALI HASSAN ZAIDI 60524. The Distinctiveness of Indian SecularismRAJEEV BHARGAVA 623List of Contributors 651Index 657