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The Spirit of Matter: Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects

By (author) Peter Pels

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A range of meaningful objectsâ€”exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computersâ€”demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their â€˜lifeâ€™. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of â€˜mind over matterâ€™. It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history.

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