Collaborative scholarly communities and access in the study of material and visual cultures of religion

The Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University (MAVCOR) does not simply, or even most fundamentally, shape a physical center at Yale University. Although MAVCOR organizes events at Yale and coordinates project cycles involving Yale affiliates as well as schol...

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Published in:Religion
Subtitles:Thematic Forum on Digital Scholarship and the Critical Study of Religion. Guest editor: James S. Bielo
Authors: Floyd, Emily C. (Author) ; Promey, Sally M. 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2018]
In: Religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Science of Religion / Digital humanities / Work team / Religion / Materiality / Visualization
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
Further subjects:B Digital humanities
B Material Religion
B born digital
B Collaborative
B Peer review
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:The Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University (MAVCOR) does not simply, or even most fundamentally, shape a physical center at Yale University. Although MAVCOR organizes events at Yale and coordinates project cycles involving Yale affiliates as well as scholars from other universities in the United States and around the world, much of MAVCOR's activity is conducted online. MAVCOR publishes a born-digital, open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal, MAVCOR Journal. It also features a born-digital exhibition space, the Material Objects Archive. In at least two ways, MAVCOR is deliberately interstitial, invested in the connective spaces between both disciplines and technologies. First, the Center emerged from a desire to promote interdisciplinary conversation among scholars of religion, art history, anthropology, and others engaged with our subjects of inquiry. We have aimed to accomplish this goal by shaping a forum for conversation and an archive for mutual use. Second, MAVCOR engages the need to form a space for peer-reviewed content online in a manner that emphasizes the mutually beneficial relationship of print and digital modes of inquiry. In this work, MAVCOR's overarching commitment is to promote innovative, substantively researched, thoughtfully constructed scholarship, with robust interdisciplinarity as a fundamental element of form and content.
ISSN:1096-1151
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2018.1445603