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MALA: The Devotional Issue

ByAmelia Black

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This issue explores devotion as it appears today — fluid, wearable, endlessly adaptable. Once bound to ritual and lineage, spiritual objects now move freely across bodies, borders, and feeds, absorbing new meanings with every encounter. Here, faith becomes personal. Portable. Styled. Mala beads, once counted in prayer, are reintroduced as markers of intention: not fixed, but felt. The sacred no longer demands renunciation; it asks only to be seen, to be chosen, to be worn close to the skin. In an age of infinite access, belief is no longer inherited. It is curated. This is not a question of authenticity, but of desire: how meaning shifts when tradition enters circulation, when reverence is reframed as aesthetic, when transcendence becomes a matter of taste. What does it mean to believe — and what does it mean to consume — when the two are indistinguishable?

Details

Publication Date
Feb 3, 2026
Language
English
Category
Art & Photography
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (artist): Amelia Black

Specifications

Pages
28
Binding Type
Paperback Saddle Stitch
Interior Color
Color
Dimensions
Comic Book (6.625 x 10.25 in / 168 x 260 mm)

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