Product Description: Sensational Devotion examines contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land recreations, creationist museums, and megachurches in order to understand how they serve their evangelical believer-users while also shaping larger cultural and national dialogues...read more

Product Description: The essays in this collection explore the thresholds between the visual and verbal, the sensory and performative, the literal and metaphorical, the social and epistemological that shaped the cultural matrix of the Middle Ages. The contributors' interrelated interests in patronage, word-image relationships, reception theory, gender studies, close visual and textual analysis, and performance criticism make for a valuable interdisciplinary mix that highlights the importance of studying medieval material culture in its many manifestations and valences...read more

Product Description: In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson’s physical encounter with live religious performances, and to argue that laypeople’s interactions with other devotional media—such as books and art objects—may also have functioned like performance events...read more

Product Description: A child transported to a strange building in an unknown town knows that money has changed hands with his parents. What is his response? A woman, made redundant as a result of a colleagues scheming, at last hits upon her own simple revenge...read more