Religion and Media
“I cannot overestimate the importance of this book, which will become mandatory reading for all courses in media studies, histories of religion, anthropologies of modernity, cosmopolitics, the global order, and new forms of sociality. Reading it has been a source of rare intellectual satisfaction and aesthetic pleasure.”—Rosalind Carmel Morris, Columbia University\ “The collection of essays Religion and Media is an important contribution to a variety of disciplines, including but not limited...
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The latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication. At the same time, a “return to religion” occurred on a global scale. The twenty-five contributors to this volume—including Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel—confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media.
ContributorsPt. IIntroducing the ConceptsIn Media Res: Global Religion, Public Spheres, and the Task of Contemporary Comparative Religious Studies3Religion, Repetition, Media43"Above All, No Journalists!"56Theory on TV: "After-Thoughts"94The Deconstruction of Christianity112Reading a Modern Classic: W. C. Smith's The Meaning and End of Religion131Pt. IISeeing and Believing: Historical and Philosophical ConsiderationsMimesis and the Ban on Graven Images151In the Workshop of Equivalences: Translation, Institutions, and Media in the Jesuit Re-Formation of China163Images of Iron: Ignatius of Loyola and Joyce182Luther with McLuhan198Tele-vision: Between Blind Trust and Perceptual Faith216"The Catholicism of Cinema": Gilles Deleuze on Image and Belief227Mission Impossible: Postcards, Pictures, and Parasites241Pt. IIILocal Rites, Global Media: Critical and Anthropological ApproachesKiblat and the Mediatic Jew271The Cassowary Will (Not) Be Photographed: The "Primitive," the "Japanese," and the Elusive "Sacred" (Aru, Southeast Moluccas)304A Remaking of Hinduism?: or, Taking the Mickey Out of Valmiki320Mirror Image: Layered Narratives in Photographic and Televised Mediations of Ise's Shikinen Sengu339Reconciliation Without Justice376Channel-Surfing: Media, Mediumship, and State Authority in the Maria Lionza Possession Cult (Venezuela)388Production of Fundamentalism: On the Dynamics of Producing the Radically Different435Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and Religion in Iranian Cinema456The Aboriginal Medium: Negotiating the Caesura of Exchange487Before the Law: Reading the Yuendumu Doors with Eric Michaels514Pt. IVTwo DocumentsThe Religious Medium531Morality and the Secrets of Religion555Notes569
