Religion And Representation

Author : Ingrid Mattson,Paul Nesbitt-Larking,Nawaz Tahir
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443875141

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Religion and Representation by Ingrid Mattson,Paul Nesbitt-Larking,Nawaz Tahir Pdf

Religion and Representation: Islam and Democracy brings together a series of reflections, studies and observations that examine the complex relationship between political representation and Islam. Through the perspectives of theology, history, sociology, philosophy and political science, contributions to this volume explore the connections between religious beliefs, religiosity, political ideals and political behaviour. Grounded in the experience of both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority states, the chapters represent a broad cross-section of approaches that emerge from a process of exchange and dialogue, which began with a three-day conference in London, Canada in March 2012. Beyond demonstrating how Islam and democracy are compatible, the authors in this volume employ theological reasoning, theoretical insight, logical argumentation and empirical data to explore in detail the points of connection. Contributions encompass a broad spectrum of interpretations of Islam, as well as consideration of critical and compelling issues and controversies across a range of contemporary settings.

Author : M. George,D. Pezzoli-Olgiati
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1137371331

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Religious Representation in Place by M. George,D. Pezzoli-Olgiati Pdf

Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understanding of how religious symbols and spatial studies interact. The essays consider the relevance of religion in the experience of space, a fundamental dimension of culture and human life.

Author : Kim Knott,Elizabeth Poole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317098799

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Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred by Kim Knott,Elizabeth Poole Pdf

Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain key sources of popular information about religion. They are particularly significant at a time when religious participation in Europe is declining yet the public visibility and influence of religions seems to be increasing. Based on analysis of mainstream media, the book is set in the context of wider debates about the sociology of religion and media representation. The authors draw on research conducted in the 1980s and 2008-10 to examine British media coverage and representation of religion and contemporary secular values, and to consider what has changed in the last 25 years. Exploring the portrayal of Christianity and public life, Islam and religious diversity, atheism and secularism, and popular beliefs and practices, several media events are also examined in detail: the Papal visit to the UK in 2010 and the ban of the controversial Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, in 2009. Religion is shown to be deeply embedded in the language and images of the press and television, and present in all types of coverage from news and documentaries to entertainment, sports reporting and advertising. A final chapter engages with global debates about religion and media.

Author : Stefanie Knauss
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004426764

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Religion and Film by Stefanie Knauss Pdf

This critical overview of the field of film and religion distinguishes three complementary approaches: the study of film as text, the investigation of how film affect audiencs, and the consideration of film and religion as agents in cultural processes. The overview concludes with a reflection on theories and methodologies of the field and some possibilities for future development.

Author : Hans Geybels,Sara Mels,Michel Walrave
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9052015341

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Faith and Media by Hans Geybels,Sara Mels,Michel Walrave Pdf

In the past, ideologies and religions had a real impact on the media. In the current era of mass media and communication strategies, perception takes priority over identity and new questions arise: how to introduce faith and religion in a pluralising and detraditionalising world? What possibilities are offered by the new media? How can technical innovations be incorporated in church communication? Following the conference Belief in the Media (April 2007), this publication focuses on the gap between the language of faith and the language of the general media. The different contributors analyse, from within - but also from outside - a church context, the historical changes and challenges the Catholic Church and other faiths and denominations face with regard to their social communication and media strategies. However it is not only the relationship of religious institutions with the media that is at stake, but also the way in which the media cover topics such as the Middle East, Muslim immigrant populations in Europe, and the World Youth Day. Journalists have to find new ways to get a grip on these issues too.

Author : Erica Baffelli,Ian Reader,Birgit Staemmler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136827822

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Japanese Religions on the Internet by Erica Baffelli,Ian Reader,Birgit Staemmler Pdf

Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Its intention is to contribute to wider discussions about religion and the Internet by providing an important example – based on one of the Internet’s most prominent languages – of how new media technologies are being used and are impacting on religion in the East-Asian context, while also developing further our understandings of religion in a technologically advanced country. Scholars studying the relationship of religion and the Internet can no longer work on prevailing notions that have thus far characterised the field, such as the assumption that the Internet is a Western-centric phenomenon and that studies of English-language sites relating to religion can provide a viable model for wider analyses of the topic. Despite this growing amount of research on religion and the Internet, comparatively little has focused on non-Western cultures. The general field of study relating to religion and the Internet has paid scant attention to Asian contexts. The field needs a full-length and comprehensive study that focuses on the Japanese religious world and the Internet, not merely to redress the imbalances of the field thus far, but also because such studies will be central to the emerging field of the study of religion and the Internet in future. They will provide important means of developing new theories, constructing new paradigms and understanding the underlying dynamics of this new media form.

Author : Jan Assmann,Albert I. Baumgartner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004379121

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Representation in Religion by Jan Assmann,Albert I. Baumgartner Pdf

The role of representation in religion is complex. While often perceived as essential, it is also associated in many traditions with the liability of idolatry and provokes iconoclasm. The essays in this volume examine the nuances of representation in religion and the debate concerning its place across a variety of traditions from the three Abrahamic faiths, to those of antiquity and the East. This volume consists of presentations made at an international conference held in honor of Moshe Barasch, art historian and cultural critic, who has done much to elucidate the light which representation and religion shed on each other. It pays tribute to Barasch by expanding the base of understanding and insight he has erected. It should be of interest to students of religion and of art history.

Author : Amanda J. Lucia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Festivals
ISBN : 9780520376953

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White Utopias by Amanda J. Lucia Pdf

Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals operate as religious institutions for "spiritual, but not religious" (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga's role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.

Author : Milija Gluhovic,Jisha Menon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137496089

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Performing the Secular by Milija Gluhovic,Jisha Menon Pdf

With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking about the place of the secular in cultural productions. The last decade alone has witnessed many religious protests against cultural productions, which have led, in some cases, to the closure of theatre and opera performances. Threats to artists led to the exile of Indian painter, MF Husain, and murder of Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh, the controversy over the depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 led to the cancellation of performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo for the season. Offering fresh and provocative readings that probe the limits and promise of secularity in relation to questions of performance, politics, and the public sphere, this book will be invaluable to scholars who seek to understand the dramatic rise of politicized theology in our new century.

Author : M. George,D. Pezzoli-Olgiati
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137342683

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Religious Representation in Place by M. George,D. Pezzoli-Olgiati Pdf

Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understanding of how religious symbols and spatial studies interact. The essays consider the relevance of religion in the experience of space, a fundamental dimension of culture and human life.

Author : Hubertus G. Hubbeling,Hans G. Kippenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783112322154

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On Symbolic Representation of Religion / Zur symbolischen Repräsentation von Religion by Hubertus G. Hubbeling,Hans G. Kippenberg Pdf

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Author : Verity Jane Platt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521861717

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Facing the Gods by Verity Jane Platt Pdf

This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period through the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire.

Author : Antoine Vergote,Alvaro Tamayo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110823387

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The Parental Figures and the Representation of God by Antoine Vergote,Alvaro Tamayo Pdf

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems - both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Author : Ingrid Mattson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:904743906

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Religion and Representation by Ingrid Mattson Pdf

Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9783643961686

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Representation and Ultimacy by Jan-Olav Henriksen Pdf

Jan-Olav Henriksen investigates the close relationship between God and human beings via an understanding of religion as clusters of practices that relate humans to ultimacy by different types of representation. Christian religion articulates its belief in God as creator (manifest in the power to be) and redeemer (represented in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ). Christ thus is the primary representation of God as the ultimate reality of love. He is also the true image of God, and the model for how humans are also called to represent God in love. The human features of desire and vulnerability, as these express elements that shape, form, and articulate challenges for human life, present humans with the need for orienting themselves, and for different types of transformation. Christian religion articulates a specific mode of how to cope with these challenges presented by desire and vulnerability: by living in love. Against this backdrop, Henriksen argues that neither how one understands religion, God, nor how to live a life that relates to ultimacy, can be tasks fulfilled as long as history goes on.