Trance Mediums and New Media : : Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction /

Trance Mediums and New Media : : Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction / / Anja Dreschke, Martin Zillinger; ed. by Heike Behrend.

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Ongoing debates about the “return of religion” have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact tha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Dreschke, Anja,
Zillinger, Martin,
MitwirkendeR:
Behrend, Heike,
Böhme, Claudia,
Dreschke, Anja,
Guzy, Lidia,
Holl, Ute,
Hüwelmeier, Gertrud,
Kendall, Laurel,
Morris, Rosalind C.,
Pinney, Christopher,
Schulz, Dorothea E.,
Schüttpelz, Erhard,
Spadola, Emilio,
Zillinger, Martin,
HerausgeberIn:
Behrend, Heike,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Trance Mediums and New Media
  • On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media
  • Trance Mediums and New Media: The Heritage of a European Term
  • Absence and the Mediation of the Audiovisual Unconscious
  • New Media and Traveling Spirits: Pentecostals in the Vietnamese Diaspora and the Disaster of the Titanic
  • Numinous Dress/Iconic Costume: Korean Shamans Dressed for the Gods and for the Camera
  • Rites of Reception: Mass-Mediated Trance and Public Order in Morocco
  • Media and Manifestation: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plenitude in Central India
  • Media Transformations: Music, Goddess Embodiment, and Politics in Western Orissa/India
  • Transmitting Divine Grace: On the Materiality of Charismatic Mediation in Mali
  • Spaces of Refusal: Photophobic Spirits and the Technical Medium of Photography
  • ‘‘Look with Your Own Eyes!’’: Visualizations of Spirit Mediums and Their Viewing Techniques in Tanzanian Video Films
  • Possession Play: On Cinema, Reenactment, and Trance in the Cologne Tribes
  • Trance Techniques, Cinema, and Cybernetics
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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