This course explores the contemporary manifestations of material religion in the everyday and ritual lives of Shia Muslims in Iran, focusing on how religious meaning is embodied, sensed, and enacted through objects, spaces, sounds, and aesthetics. Drawing from anthropology, theology, art history, and religious studies, it traces how devotion, memory, and power are materialized in homes, shrines, streets, clothing, media, and digital environments. Case studies include several types of religious performances, shrine aesthetics, political iconography, pilgrimage souvenirs, votive offerings, and sacred sounds. This course explores the contemporary manifestations of material religion in the everyday and ritual lives of Shia Muslims in Iran, focusing on how religious meaning is embodied, sensed, and enacted through objects, spaces, sounds, and aesthetics. Drawing from anthropology, theology, art history, and religious studies, it traces how devotion, memory, and power are materialized in homes, shrines, streets, clothing, media, and digital environments. Case studies include several types of religious performances, shrine aesthetics, political iconography, pilgrimage souvenirs, votive offerings, and sacred sounds.This course explores the contemporary manifestations of material religion in the everyday and ritual lives of Shia Muslims in Iran, focusing on how religious meaning is embodied, sensed, and enacted through objects, spaces, sounds, and aesthetics. Drawing from anthropology, theology, art history, and religious studies, it traces how devotion, memory, and power are materialized in homes, shrines, streets, clothing, media, and digital environments. Case studies include several types of religious performances, shrine aesthetics, political iconography, pilgrimage souvenirs, votive offerings, and sacred sounds.