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

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zillinger, Martin (Editor ), Dreschke, Anja (Editor ), Behrend, Heike (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Trance mediums and new media / Heike Behrend and Martin Zillinger
  • On the subject of spirit mediumship in the age of new media / Rosalind C. Morris
  • Trance mediums and new media: the heritage of a European term / Erhard Schüttpelz
  • Absence and the mediation of the audiovisual unconscious / Martin Zillinger
  • New media and traveling spirits: pentecostals in the Vietnamese diaspora and the disaster of the Titanic / Gertrud Hüwelmeier
  • Numinous dress/iconic costume: Korean shamans dressed for the gods and for the camera / Laurel Kendall
  • Rites of reception: mass-mediated trance and public order in Morocco / Emilio Spadola
  • Media and manifestation: the aesthetics and politics of plenitude in central India / Christopher Pinney
  • Media transformations: music, goddess embodiment, and politics in western Orissa/India / Lidia Guzy
  • Transmitting divine grace: on the materiality of charismatic mediation in Mali / Dorothea E. Schulz
  • Spaces of refusal: photophobic spirits and the technical medium of photography / Heike Behrend
  • "Look with your own eyes!": visualizations of spirit mediums and their viewing techniques in Tanzanian video films / Claudia Böhme
  • Possession play: on cinema, reenactment, and trance in the Cologne tribes / Anja Dreschke
  • Trance techniques, cinema, and cybernetics / Ute Holl.