Thrifted Religion: Essays on Finding Religion in Texas Thrift Stores
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2024-08-01
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This book is a collection of select essays written by TAMU students in the COMM 480: Religious Communication course in Spring 2024. Each student in the class became a research collaborator in the "Thrifting Religion" research project run by Dr Heidi A Campbell. This project documents and studies the different forms of “religious material culture” found through secondhand sales and resale shops. Religious material culture refers to the study of physical objects related to the beliefs and practices of various religions (i.e. prayer beads, religious jewelry, holy books, etc.). Students were asked to select an item from this collection and then write a short report about what that object is, how it is used in religious practices, and what messages about religion the items appeared to communicate. The best essays from the class are featured here, and they tell the story of how religions becomes represented, commodified, and incorporated in unique ways into people's everyday religious life.
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eBook, student & faculty research collaboration
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Religion, Texas, Material Culture, Thrift Stores, Religious Identity