RESEARCH AREA: HOSPITALITY
Hospitable Materialities
“Because researchers in religion and society often focus on ‘abnormal’ religious experiences – ecstatic visions of God or miraculous healings – they can overlook how the normal and the abnormal are interrelated concepts. By focusing on debates about normal domestic materialities, I highlight the way class differences and pilgrimage home hospitality destabilize performances of national kinship.”
PUBLICATIONS
Substituting Stories: Narrative Arcs and Pilgrimage Material Culture Between Lourdes and Csíksomlyó.
Journal of Global Catholicism. 3.1 (May 2019): 100-125.