Religion as Mediation
Why and how is it productive to conceptualize religion as mediation? In this article, I 1) rehearse the intellectual trajectory of the move from studying the implications of the adoption of new mass media into religious practices to a broader idea of religion as a practice of mediation; 2) address s...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
[2020]
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Entangled Religions
Année: 2020, Volume: 11, Numéro: 3 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Religion
/ Médiation
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions AD Sociologie des religions AE Psychologie de la religion AX Dialogue interreligieux |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
sensational form
B immanent and transcendent B Médiation B Plurality B Media |
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| Résumé: | Why and how is it productive to conceptualize religion as mediation? In this article, I 1) rehearse the intellectual trajectory of the move from studying the implications of the adoption of new mass media into religious practices to a broader idea of religion as a practice of mediation; 2) address some criticisms raised with regard to the concept of religion-as-mediation from my position in the interface of anthropology and religious studies; 3) discuss the evocation of a sense of transcendence through sensational forms, and 4) by way of an outlook, pinpoint how conceptualizing religion as mediation is useful to unpack religious plurality. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13154/er.11.2020.8444 |