• DOI:10.1080/0048721X.2012.705479
Corpus ID: 144627957

Bodies and things in the forest of symbols

@article{Johnson2012BodiesAT,
  title={Bodies and things in the forest of symbols},
  author={P. Johnson},
  journal={Religion},
  year={2012},
  volume={42},
  pages={633 - 642}
}

• P. Johnson
• Published 2012
• Philosophy
• Religion

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Taking Manuel Vásquez's book as its point of departure, this essay explores what a truly materialist history of materiality for the study of religion might look like, in contradistinction to idealist histories of materiality. It then mounts a defense of Clifford Geertz as a pioneering scholar of material and embodied religion, against the positions taken by Vásquez and, earlier, by Talal Asad, applying a critique that has by now become overly entrenched and unquestionable.