Media and Religion in (Post)Colonial Societies

Dynamics of Power and Resistance
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-7410-0385-1
Verlag: Schüren Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band 2/2021, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Journal for Religion, Film and Media

Media and religion, both broadly understood, often form the mise-en-scène for power struggles in competing narratives of conflict, protest, oppression, and resistance. Religious practices are visual and material practices that communicate meaning, and media thrive on harnessing the cognitive and affective power of religious symbols or narratives. Many media producers draw on the ability of religions, as communicative systems, to distill human experience and to create particularly powerful structures of affect. The intricate and dynamic relationships between media and religion are part of cultural efforts to inscribe and embody meaning on an individual and collective level, and thus to turn chaos into order, to establish and communicate categories and boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bornet, Philippe

Knauss, Stephanie

Ornella, Alexander D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

0_Media and Religion in (Post)Colonial Societies: Dynamics of Power and Resistance
Editorial
Philippe Bornet / Stefanie Knauss, and Alexander D. Ornella

1_Playing with Words, Worlds, and Images
An Interview with the Indian Graphic Novelist Amruta Patil
Amruta Patil

2_Validating Demons
Recasting Rava?a as a Leader of the Oppressed in Mani Ratnam’s Film Version of the Ramaya?a
Genoveva Castro

3_Unruly Images
Representing India in the Calwer Bilder-Tafeln zur Länder- und Völker-Kunde (1883)
Philippe Bornet

4_Using Latinx Theology’s Lo Cotidiano to Decolonize Oller’s El Velorio
Héctor Varela Rios

5_Making Space, Claiming Place
Social Media and the Emergence of the “Muslim” Political Parties DENK and NIDA in the Netherlands
Sakina Loukili


Media Reviews

6_Book Review
August E. Grant / Amanda F. C. Sturgill / Chiung Hwang Chen / Daniel A. Stout (eds.), Religion Online
How Digital Technology Is Changing the Way We Worship and Pray
Lisa Kienzl


7_Book Review
Inge Kirsner, Komm und sieh
Religion im Film. Analysen und Modelle
Jochen Mündlein


8_Festival Review
35th Fribourg International Film Festival
Baldassare Scolari


9_Game Review
Creaks (Puzzle)
Amanita Design, 2020
Christian Wessely