Trance Mediums and New Media
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Trance Mediums and New Media

Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Trance Mediums and New Media

Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction

About this book

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 the fact that historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was closely linked to the development of new media of communication.This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema, video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media? Why are certain technical media shunned in these contexts?

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Yes, you can access Trance Mediums and New Media by Anja Dreschke,Martin Zillinger, Heike Behrend in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Media & Communications Industry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Trance Mediums and New Media: Heike Behrend and Martin Zillinger
  8. On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media: Rosalind C. Morris
  9. Trance Mediums and New Media: The Heritage of a European Term: Erhard SchÜttpelz
  10. Absence and the Mediation of the Audiovisual Unconscious: Martin Zillinger
  11. New Media and Traveling Spirits: Pentecostals in the Vietnamese Diaspora and the Disaster of the Titanic: Gertrud HÜwelmeier
  12. Numinous Dress/Iconic Costume: Korean Shamans Dressed for the Gods and for the Camera: Laurel Kendall
  13. Rites of Reception: Mass-Mediated Trance and Public Order in Morocco: Emilio Spadola
  14. Media and Manifestation: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plenitude in Central India: Christopher Pinney
  15. Media Transformations: Music, Goddess Embodiment, and Politics in Western Orissa/India: Lidia Guzy
  16. Transmitting Divine Grace: On the Materiality of Charismatic Mediation in Mali: Dorothea E. Schulz
  17. Spaces of Refusal: Photophobic Spirits and the Technical Medium of Photography: Heike Behrend
  18. “Look with Your Own Eyes!”: Visualizations of Spirit Mediums and Their Viewing Techniques in Tanzanian Video Films: Claudia BÖhme
  19. Possession Play: On Cinema, Reenactment, and Trance in the Cologne Tribes: Anja Dreschke
  20. Trance Techniques, Cinema, and Cybernetics: Ute Holl
  21. Notes
  22. Works Cited
  23. List of Contributors
  24. Index