"I Sing the body electric" : Body, Voice, Technology and Religion Journal for Religion, Film and Media / Christian Wessely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wessely, Christian, author.

Stiebert, Johanna, author.

Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz, author.

Heesch, Florian, author.

Heimerl, Theresia, author.

Radovic, Milja, author.

Setzer, Claudia, author.

Māniʻ, Ilhām, author.

Series:

Journal for Religion, Film and Media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Periodicals.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (130 p.)

Other Title:

"I Sing the body electric". Body, Voice, Technology and Religion

Pedigree of Dualistic and Non-Dualistic Media

Editorial

Voicing the Technological Body

Images of the Muslim Woman and the Construction of Muslim Identity

Book Review

Place of Publication:

Schüren Verlag 2016

Marburg : Schüren Verlag, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his controversial poem “I Sing the Body Electric”, Walt Whitman glorified the human body in all its forms. The world according to Whitman is physical and sensual. Bodies are our fundamental way of being – being in the here and now, being in time and space. Bodies we have and bodies we are are as much sensed, felt, experienced, seen, or heard as they are material objects.2 As bodies, we are in space, and through our bodies, their processes, their practices, their skills, we leave traces in space and time and extend ourselves in space. Bodies that extend and reach out and communicate through voice, as well as how voice materialises the immaterial, was the topic of a colloquium, “I Sing the Body Electric”, held at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, in 2014, which in turn inspired the following special issue of the Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM). Following on from the colloquium’s inspiration, this JRFM issue is dedicated to the interrelation between religion, body, technology, and voice and its analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective using approaches from musicology, philosophy, and religious studies.

Contents:

Alexander D. Ornella and Anna-Katharina Höpflinger

"I Sing the Body Electric"

Editorial 9

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

The Pedigree of Dualistic and Non-Dualistic Media

Grasping Extramedial Meanings 15

Johanna Stiebert

The Body and Voice of God in the Hebrew Bible 23

Claudia Setzer

"This Voice Has Come for Your Sake"

Seeing and Hearing in John's Gospel 35

Florian Heesch

Voicing the Technological Body

Some Musicological Reflections on Combinations

of Voice and Technology in Popular Music 49

Open Session

Milja Radovic

Activist Citizenship, Film and Peacebuilding:

Acts and Transformative Practices 73

Elham Manea

Images of the Muslim Woman

and the Construction of Muslim Identity

The Essentialist Paradigm 91

Christian Wessely

Elijah Siegler, Coen. Framing Religion in Amoral Order 113

Baylor University Press, 2016

Theresia Heimerl

Matthew Rindge, Profane Parables. Film and the American Dream 121

Calls for Papers

Comics and Animated Cartoons 127

Using Media in Religious Studies 129

Strategies of Representing Religion in Scholarly Approaches.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Schüren Verlag, viewed March 23, 2023).