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Ria Berg, Reima Välimäki, Anu Kaisa Koponen, Antonella Coralini, Introduction: Tangible Religion from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period -- Meritxell Ferrer, More than Dwellings. Women, Rituals and Homes in Western Sicily (8th-5th Centuries BCE) -- Simona Perna, What is in a Vase? Materiality and Semiotics of Cinerary Vases in Egyptian Stone and Vase Shapes in Roman Domestic and Funerary Contexts -- Aude Durand & William Van Andringa, To Live or not to Live. The Lares and the Transfer of the Domicilium in a Roman Town -- Maddalena Bassani, Gods and Cult Objects in Roman Houses. Notes for a Methodological Research -- Ria Berg, Instruments & Amulets. Pompeian Hairpins and Women's Domestic Ritual -- Antonella Coralini, Materialising Divine Presences. Hercules domesticus Revisited -- Anu Kaisa Koponen, Egyptian Cults in Pompeian Domestic Wall Paintings -- Maddalena Bassani, Sacra privata in Central Italy. New Data from an Archaeological Research -- Claire Renkin, Making the Sacred Palpable. How Material Objects Enhanced Lay Devotional Practices in Late Medieval Europe -- Reima Välimäki, More Powerful than Mere Matter? Forbidden but Practiced Material Religion among the Late Medieval German Waldensians -- Kirsi Majantie, Venerated and Didactic Walls. Devotional Images on Fifteenth- to Sixteenth-Century Tile Stoves in Northern Europe -- David Gaimster, New Faith, New Home, New Stove. The Role of the Hanseatic Ceramic Trade in the Transmission of New Confessional and Political Identities in the Northern European Home, c. 1500-1600.