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    Shimmering Magic: Cross-cultural Explorations of the Aesthetic, Moral, and Mystical Significance of Reflecting and Deflecting Shine

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    Romberg, Raquel; Fanger, Claire
    Date
    2017
    Abstract
    This introduction lays basic theoretical groundwork that helps tie together these different articles on ritual uses of shimmer. Contributors examine not only how contemporary technologies of mass production (tinfoil, plastic sequins) and reproduction (photographs) have entered both iconoclast and iconophile ritual and popular culture spheres; they also illustrate how metaphoric and metonymic forms of agency and presence are attributed to shimmering properties and substances. Contributors have a common purpose in probing the limit of common sense assumptions about the agency of shine as presencing (rather than just representing) the divine.
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    Romberg, Raquel and Fanger, Claire. "Shimmering Magic: Cross-cultural Explorations of the Aesthetic, Moral, and Mystical Significance of Reflecting and Deflecting Shine." Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 12, no. 2 (2017) University of Pennsylvania Press: 146-162. https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2017.0018.
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    https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2017.0018
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    Journal article
    Publisher
    University of Pennsylvania Press
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1911/97823
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    Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
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