The articles in this special issue illuminate the importance of aesthetics, affect, and emotion
in the formation of religious communities through examples from the Buddhist world. This …

Studies of belonging and community formation often emphasize commonality of values,
emotions, and feelings. This article highlights the importance of practices that create …

This ethnographic study shows that women's knowledge and practices involving food in
Japanese Buddhist contexts circulate as gendered currency. It emphasizes how what we …

Taking examples from lived Tibetan Buddhism, this article explores the role of religion in the
generation, sorting, and handling of waste that is produced or ends up in the religious field …

With Buddhism's integration into the global market economy, the trade in Buddhist
commodities is booming. I ask how the value of such goods is measured, communicated …

This article contributes to the study of material religion a discussion on the notion of
remediation, by exploring the affordances of the waxwork as a new medium in the Tibetan …

Dentro de la cultura material palmera, la Virgen de las Nieves es un objeto con agencia
además de un dispositivo identitario, capaz de movilizar, a través del patrimonio emocional …