Trance Mediums and New Media : Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction / Anja Dreschke, Martin Zillinger; ed. by Heike Behrend.
Dreschke, Anja, author.; Behrend, Heike, contributor.; Behrend, Heike, editor.; Böhme, Claudia, contributor.; Dreschke, Anja, contributor.; Guzy, Lidia, contributor.; Holl, Ute, contributor.; Hüwelmeier, Gertrud, contributor.; Kendall, Laurel, contributor.; Morris, Rosalind C., contributor.; Pinney, Christopher, contributor.; Schulz, Dorothea E., contributor.; Schüttpelz, Erhard, contributor.; Spadola, Emilio, contributor.; Zillinger, Martin, author.; Zillinger, Martin, contributor.
2014
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Title Trance Mediums and New Media : Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction / Anja Dreschke, Martin Zillinger; ed. by Heike Behrend.
Author Dreschke, Anja, author.
ISBN 9780823253838
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823253838
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (392 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823253838 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 133.9/1
Summary 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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Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Added Author Behrend, Heike, contributor.
Behrend, Heike, editor.
Böhme, Claudia, contributor.
Dreschke, Anja, contributor.
Guzy, Lidia, contributor.
Holl, Ute, contributor.
Hüwelmeier, Gertrud, contributor.
Kendall, Laurel, contributor.
Morris, Rosalind C., contributor.
Pinney, Christopher, contributor.
Schulz, Dorothea E., contributor.
Schüttpelz, Erhard, contributor.
Spadola, Emilio, contributor.
Zillinger, Martin, author.
Zillinger, Martin, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Trance Mediums and New Media
On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media
Trance Mediums and New Media: The Heritage of a European Term
Absence and the Mediation of the Audiovisual Unconscious
New Media and Traveling Spirits: Pentecostals in the Vietnamese Diaspora and the Disaster of the Titanic
Numinous Dress/Iconic Costume: Korean Shamans Dressed for the Gods and for the Camera
Rites of Reception: Mass-Mediated Trance and Public Order in Morocco
Media and Manifestation: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plenitude in Central India
Media Transformations: Music, Goddess Embodiment, and Politics in Western Orissa/India
Transmitting Divine Grace: On the Materiality of Charismatic Mediation in Mali
Spaces of Refusal: Photophobic Spirits and the Technical Medium of Photography
''Look with Your Own Eyes!'': Visualizations of Spirit Mediums and Their Viewing Techniques in Tanzanian Video Films
Possession Play: On Cinema, Reenactment, and Trance in the Cologne Tribes
Trance Techniques, Cinema, and Cybernetics
Notes
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index

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