Interpretation emphasizing materiality and the objectification of emotion generally has been undertaken most effectively in studies that stress the cultural construction of emotion in religion. Researchers have for several decades ex- perimented with strategies for identifying local codes of emotional life and their linkages to religion. Researchers also have been attentive to the risk of steering analysis too far into constructionist interpretation that might miss emotional expression that challenges culturally derived standards for feeling or that un- dermines human inventiveness. 20 Some of the studies of religious weeping that followed upon work by Christian and Eire ref