Aesthetic formations : media, religion, and the senses / edited by Birgit Meyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21-

Series:

Religion/culture/critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and culture.

Mass media--Religious aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

xiv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: From imagined communities to aesthetic formations : religious mediations, sensational forms, and styles of binding / Birgit Meyer

Boundary politics

"Don't ask questions, just observe!" : boundary politics in Bahian Candomblé / Mattijs van de Port

Purity and the devil : community, media, and the body. Pentecostal adherents in a favela in Rio de Janeiro / Martijn Oosterbaan

"More sexpression please!" : screening the female voice and body in the Bangladesh film industry / Lotte Hoek

Religion in the public realm

Tamil mythological cinema and the politics of secular modernism / Stephen Putnam Hughes

Islamic renewal, radio, and the surface of things / Brian Larkin

The sonic architects of a new babel : the politics of belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke / Francio Guadeloupe

Mediating immediacy

Breath, technology, and the making-of community Canção Nova in Brazil / Maria José A. de Abreu

Modes of binding, moments of bonding. Mediating divine touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and traditionalism / Marleen de Witte

Prophecy on stage : fame and celebrities in the context of the Raelian Movement / Carly Machado

Seized by the spirit : the mystical foundation of squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) today / Rafael Sánchez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230605559

9780230605558

OCLC:

298467872

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