Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

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Palgrave Macmillan US, Aug 11, 2009 - Social Science - 278 pages
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.

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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
Birgit Meyer
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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
Birgit Meyer
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About the author (2009)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleAesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
AuthorBirgit Meyer
Editionillustrated
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US, 2009
ISBN0230605559, 9780230605558
Length278 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Religion / Christian Theology / General
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Media Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology of Religion
  
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