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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses (Religion/Culture/Critique)
Birgit Meyer
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Description for Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses (Religion/Culture/Critique)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 292 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
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.
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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Religion/Culture/Critique
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230605558
SKU
V9780230605558
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Birgit Meyer
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses (Religion/Culture/Critique)
'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, ... Read more