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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

by Birgit Meyer
Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

by Birgit Meyer

Overview

This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230622296
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 10/17/2010
Series: Religion/Culture/Critique
Edition description: 2009
Pages: 278
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

BIRGIT MEYER is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Translating the Devil. Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana, and co-editor of Globalization and Identity (with Peter Geschiere), Magic and Modernity (with Peter Pels) and Religion, Media and the Public Sphere (with Annelies Moors). She is also co-editor of the journal Material Religion.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Series Editor's Preface ix

Preface xi

Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms, and Styles of Binding Birgit Meyer 1

Part 1 Boundary Politics

1 "Don't Ask Questions, Just Observe!" Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomblé Mattijs van de Port 31

2 Purity and the Devil: Community, Media, and the Body. Pentecostal Adherents in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro Martijn Oosterbaan 53

3 "More Sexpression Please!" Screening the Female Voice and Body in the Bangladesh Film Industry Lotte Hoek 71

Part 2 Religion in the Public Realm

4 Tamil Mythological Cinema and the Politics of Secular Modernism Stephen Putnam Hughes 93

5 Islamic Renewal, Radio, and the Surface of Things Brian Larkin 117

6 The Sonic Architects of a New Babel: The Politics of Belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke Francio Guadeloupe

Part 3 Mediating Immediacy

7 Breath, Technology, and the Making of Community Canção Nova in Brazil Maria José A. de Abreu 161

8 Modes of Binding, Moments of Bonding. Mediating Divine Touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Traditionalism Marleen de Witte 183

9 Prophecy on Stage: Fame and Celebrities in the Context of the Raelian Movement Carly Machado 207

10 Seized by the Spirit. The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) Today Rafael Sánchez 225

Bibliography 247

List of Contributors 267

Index 271

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