Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms, and Styles of Binding -- Part 1 Boundary Politics -- 1 "Don't A...

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Contributors: Meyer, Birgit (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2009
In:Year: 2009
Series/Journal:Religion/Culture/Critique
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Aesthetics / Civilization / Mass media research / Religious life / Mass media / Religion / Culture
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Mass Media Religious aspects
B Religion and culture
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms, and Styles of Binding -- Part 1 Boundary Politics -- 1 "Don't Ask Questions, Just Observe!" Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomblé -- 2 Purity and the Devil: Community, Media, and the Body. Pentecostal Adherents in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro -- 3 "More Sexpression Please!" Screening the Female Voice and Body in the Bangladesh Film Industry
Part 2 Religion in the Public Realm -- 4 Tamil Mythological Cinema and the Politics of Secular Modernism -- 5 Islamic Renewal, Radio, and the Surface of Things -- 6 The Sonic Architects of a New Babel: The Politics of Belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke -- Part 3 Mediating Immediacy -- 7 Breath, Technology, and the Making of Community Canção Nova in Brazil -- 8 Modes of Binding, Moments of Bonding. Mediating Divine Touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Traditionalism -- 9 Prophecy on Stage: Fame and Celebrities in the Context of the Raelian Movement
10 Seized by the Spirit. The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) Today -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
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ISBN:0230605559