In this article, I am interested in how belief and religious materiality—sacred objects, places, infrastructures and digital media—are entangled in globalisation processes. Drawing on a case study of the John of God spiritual movement, I analyse the ways in which places and objects that have recently acquired sacred status enter into older, more established global spiritual networks, and by doing so are able to travel and ‘settle’ elsewhere. I argue that if we want to make sense of the place of religion in the world today, we need to link two fields of research on religion which have mostly developed separately: the fields of Material Religion and Globalisation of Religion. Furthermore, I contend that it is precisely because of its (mostly mobile) materiality that the John of God movement was able to survive somewhat after its charismatic leader was sentenced and jailed for sexual crimes in 2019.

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物质性和全球精神网络：新旧的神圣场所和物体

在本文中，我对信仰和宗教实质（神圣的物体，场所，基础设施和数字媒体）如何融入全球化过程感兴趣。通过对上帝约翰精神运动的个案研究，我分析了最近获得神圣地位的地方和物体如何进入较旧，更成熟的全球精神网络，并通过这种方式得以传播和“安顿”别处。我认为，如果我们想了解宗教在当今世界中的位置，我们需要将两个主要独立发展的宗教研究领域联系起来：物质宗教和宗教全球化领域。此外，