4 Earth from Jerusalem in the Pisan Camposanto

Bodner, Neta

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“…The cemetery is said to be built atop soil brought back from Jerusalem in 1188 by an archbishop. The earliest surviving written versions of this legend date to the 14th century, and reports disagree whether the earthen source was Golgotha or Akeldama (Bodner, 2015). In either case, the soil was said to possess miraculous properties, such as the ability to decompose bodies in three days and eliminate all foul odor.…”

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Flower, soil, water, stone: Biblical landscape items and Protestant materiality

Bielo

2018

Journal of Material Culture

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Protestants mobilize objects such as 'Holy Land' flowers, Jordan River stones, vials of Dead Sea water, sand from Lake Tiberias, and Golgotha soil as potent metonymic resources, promising a kind of direct access to the scriptural past and its sacred stories. This article uses this case of biblical landscape items to reflect on the historic ambivalence that characterizes Protestant relations with religious materiality. Building on scholarship that has demonstrated the prolific role of religious materiality in Protestant ritual and everyday lifeworlds, the author extends this analysis by asking: under what conditions do Protestants experience materiality as untroubled and under what conditions is a more anxious disposition activated? To differentiate among conditions, the author proposes that it is helpful to conceptualize Protestant engagements with materiality vis-à-vis legitimized frames (e.g. pedagogy, devotion, evangelism, entertainment). Drawing together archival and ethnographic data, primarily among US Protestants, the article argues that when Protestants function within legitimized frames they are prone to embrace biblical landscape items, but when they find themselves out of frame, their engagement with this particular species of materiality becomes troubled.

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Section: Traveling Testimoniesmentioning

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Flower, soil, water, stone: Biblical landscape items and Protestant materiality

Bielo

2018

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4 Earth from Jerusalem in the Pisan Camposanto

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Flower, soil, water, stone: Biblical landscape items and Protestant materiality

Flower, soil, water, stone: Biblical landscape items and Protestant materiality

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