Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema.

Author: Birgit Meyer
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/11/2009
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230605558

About the Author
BIRGIT MEYER is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Translating the Devil. Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana, and co-editor of Globalization and Identity (with Peter Geschiere), Magic and Modernity (with Peter Pels) and Religion, Media and the Public Sphere (with Annelies Moors). She is also co-editor of the journal Material Religion.