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. INDICE: - Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations:Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms and Styles of Binding; B.Meyer - PARTI: BOUNDARY POLITICS - 'Don't ask questions, just observe!': Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomblé; M.van de Port - Purity and the Devil: Community, Media and the Body: Pentecostal Adherents in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro; M.Oosterbaan - 'More Sexpression Please!' Screening the Female Voice and Body in the Bangladesh Film Industry; L.Hoek - PART II: RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC REALM - Tamil Mythological Cinema and the Politics of Secular Modernism; S.Putnam Hughes - Modern Religions, Modern Media: Islamic Renewal in Northern Nigeria; B.Larkin - The Sonic Architects of a New Babel: The Politics of Belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke; F.Guadeloupe - PART III: MEDIATING IMMEDIACY - Breath, Technology and the Making-Of Community Canção Nova in Brazil; M.José de Abreu - Modes of Binding, Moments of Bonding: Mediating Divine Touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Traditionalism; M.de Witte - Prophecy on Stage: Fame and Celebrities in the Context of the Raelian Movement; C.Machado - Seized by the Spirit: The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) Today; R.Sánchez
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62229-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 03/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés