Religion, media, and the question of community
By: edited by Birgit Meyer.
Contributors: Meyer, Birgit, 1960-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Religion and culture; Mass media -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From imagined communities to aesthetic formations : religious mediations, sensational forms, and styles of binding / Birgit Meyer; title: Boundary politics; title: Don't ask questions, just observe : boundary politics in Bahian Candombl / Mattijs van de Port; title: Purity and the devil : community, media and the body Pentecostal : adherents in a favela in Rio de Janeiro / Martijn Oosterbaan; title: More sexpression please! : screening the female voice and body in the Bangladesh film industry / Lotte Hoek; title: Religion in the public realm; title: Tamil mythological cinema and the politics of secular modernism / Stephen Putnam Hughes; title: Modern religions, modern media : Islamic renewal in Northern Nigeria / Brian Larkin; title: The sonic architects of a new babel : the politics of belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke / Francio Guadeloupe; title: Mediating immediacy; title: Breath, technology, and the making-of community Can O Nova in Brazil / Maria Jose de Abreu; title: Modes of binding, moments of bonding : mediating divine touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and traditionalism / Marleen de Witte; title: Prophecy on stage : fame and celebrities in the context of the Raelian Movement / Carly Machado; title: Seized by the spirit : the mystical foundation of squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) today / Rafael Sanchez.