This article provides a picture for religious studies scholars of the overlaps and differences between three recent theories of material religion which concern human perception, perceptible things, and the sometimes imperceptible forces that configure humans and things. The theories of note are: affect studies (an approach to the visceral forces that drive relations between beings); object-oriented ontology (a contentious movement in speculative realist philosophy); and everyday aesthetics (a subfield of philosophical aesthetics i.e. equally fragmented but less fractious). Although they all share interest in the interplay of material and experience, affect studies, everyday aesthetics, and object-oriented inquiry overlap with each other in ways that are rarely, if ever, explicitly addressed. For this reason, scholars of lived, embodied, and material religion should know about them, how they differ, and when to use one or the other. In religious studies, I suggest we should think of them as three methodological responses to a desire the field has to think about material religion. Importantly, they are not three equal choices. I argue that everyday aesthetics is not only the most interesting but the most useful option, and I illustrate its potential uses.

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对象、情感、美学：新唯物主义和宗教研究

本文为宗教研究学者提供了一幅图景，即关于人类感知、可感知事物和有时存在的三种物质宗教理论之间的重叠和差异。配置人和事物的可感知的力量。值得注意的理论是：情感研究（一种研究推动存在之间关系的内脏力量的方法）；面向对象的本体论（投机现实主义哲学中的一个有争议的运动）；和日常美学（哲学美学的一个子领域，即同样分散但不那么易怒）。尽管他们都对材料和经验的相互作用感兴趣，但情感研究、日常美学和面向对象的探究以很少（如果有的话）明确解决的方式相互重叠。出于这个原因，生活、具身和物质宗教的学者应该了解它们，它们有何不同，以及何时使用其中一种。在宗教研究中，我建议我们应该将它们视为对该领域必须考虑物质宗教的渴望的三种方法论回应。重要的是，它们不是三个平等的选择。我认为日常美学不仅是最有趣而且最有用的选择，并且我说明了它的潜在用途。