The Apparatus of Belief: Prayer, Technology, and Ritual Gesture

Through a focus on the early history of a mass mediated ritual practice, this essay describes the “apparatus of belief,” or the specific ways in which individual religious belief has become intimately related to tele-technologies such as the radio. More specifically, this paper examines prayers that...

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Main Author: Blanton, Anderson (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2016]
In: Religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 6, Pages: 1-14
Further subjects:B Belief
B Technology
B transduction
B Ritual
B Healing
B Pentecostal
B Radio
B Prayer
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