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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Boundary Politics
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Mediating Immediacy
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Reviews
'Aesthetic Formations invites us into the most exciting research on religion and media today. More than a collection of essays, the book has the coherence of a campaign, with each chapter theoretically coordinated and animated by vivid ethnographic accounts, full of wonders. A model of collaborative research, this book is a landmark in cultural studies of religion, media, the senses, and the social dynamics of conflict and community.' - David Chidester, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa and author of Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture
'This compelling volume argues that in order to understand the strong social connections that modern religions nurture, we need to attend to their aesthetic mediation in a variety of sensory forms and practices. The essays demonstrate the thesis in a concerted and accessible way that scholars and students of religion will welcome.' - David Morgan, Professor of Religion, Duke University, USA
'This is a groundbreaking new collection that invites us into the 'intellectual space' created by a lively and deeply original group of anthropologists whose work grapples with the experiential shape of religion in an increasingly mediated world. Their exciting new work offers us a welcome and at times dizzying journey through contemporary postcolonial religiosity - from Latin America to Africa to South Asia - to understand how the uptake of new media forms intensifies and reshapesthe sensory worlds of religious practices and identities, from their fundamental location in the body, and its extensions into the world via television, radio, and film. This is important and essential reading for anyone interested in religion or media, and dispels any lingering illusion that one precludes the other.' - Faye Ginsburg, David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director, Centre for Religion and Media, New York University, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aesthetic Formations
Book Subtitle: Media, Religion, and the Senses
Editors: Birgit Meyer
Series Title: Religion/Culture/Critique
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230623248
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Birgit Meyer 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60555-8Published: 11 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62229-6Published: 17 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62324-8Published: 20 July 2009
Series ISSN: 2945-6355
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 278
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Gender Studies, Christian Theology, Media Studies