Abstract
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the approaches that contributors to this special issue have adopted in their study of religious (and non-religious) things. Most Winnicott-inspired studies of religion thus far have looked at embodied and communicative experience from the perspective of the linguistic turn, with its emphases on symbolism, meaning, narrative, and the interplay of psychic forces. This article observes that the contributors’ interventions bear the stamp of the sensory, affective, and ontological turns, offering insights that build on their layered interrogations of modernity, coloniality, secularism, indigeneity, conversion, and migration. The article concludes with a sketch of Chinese-coded objects (chinoiseries) in ‘Afro-Cuban’ religions that puts their straddling of racial and ontological categories forward as an example of transitional phenomena. This exploration is intended to press beyond the critique of fetishism as an analytic legacy of the transatlantic slave trade while grappling with the synaesthetic nature of engagement with religious things.
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