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Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place
Votive Materials: Bodies and Beyond2018 •
Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answered, as well as the physical manifestation of hopes and anxieties. Agents of Faith explores votive offerings in the context of material culture, art history, and religious studies to better understand their history and present-day importance. By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship between people and things—the imbuing of objects with sentiment. Encompassing exquisite works of art as well as votives of humble origin and material, with objects dating from 2000 B.C. to the twenty‐first century, the beautiful illustrations and wide-ranging text expose the global reach of votive practices and the profoundly personal nature behind their creation.
in: I. Cornelius / L. Jonker (ed.), “From Ebla to Stellenbosch”. Syro-Palestinian Religions and the Hebrew Bible (ADPV 37), Wiesbaden 2008, 25-47, fig. 9-31.
Gifts to the gods? Votives as communication markers in sanctuaries and other places in the Bronze and Iron Ages in Palestine/IsraelDerived from Latin ex voto suscepto “in pursuance of a vow,” an ex voto embodies the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the person who deposits it. Almost anything, regardless of size, weight, form, or original function, can become a votive object. Ultimately, the category refers to a subset of the material world in which a thing is not necessarily made to be a votive, but instead becomes charged with votive meaning once dedicated to a deity or deities. This volume, one of the first collections devoted exclusively to the subject, builds on the assumption that a shared conceptual framework underpins votive objects, and that by merit of their consecration they have become a category representing a special stage in the life of a material. The contributors to this comparative study examine ex votos across a range of locations and time periods, including the classical Mediterranean world, medieval Europe, the period of the Catholic Reform, and on to Mexico, Shinto and Buddhist Japan, and Muslim Iran. Voluminous and diverse, Ex Voto will appeal in a wide range of fields, including history, religion, and anthropology.
Ex Voto: Votive Giving Across Cultures (ed. Ittai Weinryb)
Nazr Necessities: Votive Practices and Objects in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies2016 •
A discussion of votive objects in Bronze Age Egypt in light of theoretical considerations on practice/agency and meaning
If an object-centered volume on religious ritual is anything, it is a collection of contributions on material culture as a manifestation of structured symbolic practices (Fleming and Mann 2014; Grimes 2011; Keane 2008; Morgan 2008) [...]
in: Elisa Roßberger/Jean Evans with Paola Paoletti, Ancient Near Eastern Temple Inventories in the Third and Second Millennia BCE: Integrating Archaeological, Textual, and Visual Sources. Proceedings of a Conference Held at the LMU Centre for Advanced Studies
Votive Objects from the Temple of Aššur at Aššur2019 •
This paper deals with votive gifts from the Aššur temple at Aššur (modern Qalʿat Širgâṭ), from an archaeological point of view and from a diachronic perspective (Early Dynastic period to 614 BCE). The focus lies on portable objects, whose inscriptions or types identify them as dedications. The following aspects of dedicatory practices are discussed: object types donated, the donors, differences in comparison to other sanctuaries, and continuity and change.
V. Gasparini, M. Patzelt, R. Raja, A-K. Rieger, J. Rüpke, E. Urciuoli (eds). Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 209-235.
Graham, E-J. 2020. Hand in hand: Rethinking anatomical votives as material things2020 •
Religious experience in ancient Italy was intimately connected with the production, manipulation, veneration, and discarding of material objects. This chapter argues that for a fuller understanding of lived religion it is necessary to approach these objects as more than the mere material or visual expression of otherwise intangible concepts. It consequently explores the affective relations between things, particularly how objects and human bodies assemble in order to produce lived religious experience and religious knowledge. Taking votive terracotta models of hands from mid-Republican Italy as a case study, this chapter adopts a broadly new materialist approach to the examination of anatomical vo-tives, focusing on the tripartite affectivity of these offerings as objects manipulated in the moment of ritual, as material things, and as bodily proxies.
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