Religion in Cultural Imaginary
Explorations in Visual und Material Practices
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Erschienen am 15. Juli 2015
341 Seiten
978-3-8452-6406-6 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The multivalent concept of the imaginary is utilized to capture the presence and diffusion of religious references, symbols, worldviews, and narratives in various media and social spheres, including politics, economics, art, and popular culture. Used to describe the reception and transformation of religious references through time and cultures, imaginary can be defined as a shared pool of mental images and material products, of ideas, symbols, values, and practices that sustain meaning-making processes and cohesion within a collective. Situated at the intersection of sociological, political-philosophical, and cultural studies approaches to religion, this interdisciplinary study offers an intense exchange between theoretical discussions of religion in cultural imaginaries and richly researched empirical analysis.
With contributions by:
Daria Pezzoli-Ogiati, Ann Jeffers, Anna-Katharina Hpflinger, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Natasha O?Hear, Davide Zordan, Natalie Fritz, Marie-Therese M?der, Sean Ryan, Stefanie Knauss, Alexander D. Ornella
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Religion in Cultural Imaginary. Setting the Scene
- The Diffusion of Religious Symbols in Society
- 'Imaginary' at the Crossroad of Different Languages and Traditions
- Religion in Cultural Imaginary
- Approaches to Visual and Material Practices
- Bibliography
- The Construction of the 'Alien' in the Social Imaginary of 16th Century Germany. The Woman of Endor from Religious Mediator to Witch
- Visualising the Imaginary
- The Literary Imaginary of the Visual Representations of the Woman of Endor
- The Visual Imaginary
- The Imaginary in Jacob Cornelisz Oostsanen's Saul and the Witch of Endor
- The Imaginary in the Woodcut of the Woman of Endor in Luther's Bible of 1575
- Transforming the Imaginary
- Bibliography
- Imagining a Nation. The Civil-Religious Role of Female State Personifications
- Imagining a Nation
- Helvetia: A National Personification with a History
- Helvetia and Mary
- Civil Religious Imaginary
- Bibliography
- Western Imaginaries between Fascination, Colonial Construction and Appropriation. The Lore of a Mysterious India, of the Goddess Kali and of her Evil Devotees
- Popular Literature and Collective Imagination
- 'Paper Memory' - Approaches to the Imaginary
- I misteri della jungla nera - Mapping Western Imaginaries on India
- A Visual Imaginary of the Black Goddess
- Who's Imaginary? Closing Remarks
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Apocalyptic Imaginaries. Contrasting Approaches to Revelation
- Towards a Definition of the Cultural Imaginary in the Post-Modern Age
- Contrasting Apocalyptic Imaginaries
- The Apocalyptic Imaginary as Experienced through Popular Culture: an Overview
- Three Alternative Apocalyptic Imaginaries
- The Seventh Seal
- Twelve Gates to the City by the Reverend Blind Gary Davis
- The Left Behind-Phenomenon
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Computer Games
- Mobilizing Biblical Imaginary in Comics. Robert Crumb's The Book of Genesis
- Religion, Comics and the Imaginary
- From Underground Comics to the Bible: The Strange Itinerary of Robert Crumb
- "Do not Invent Anything": the Commandment of Crumb's Illustrative Strategy
- The Word of God in Human Drawings
- Imaginary at Work
- Bibliography
- Images Travelling through Time and Media. De- and Reconstruction of the Holy Family in Contemporary Independent Cinema
- Hey Jude - Entering the Tenenbaum's History
- Everyone - From the Holy Family to Normative Conceptions of Human Coexistence
- Look at Me - Three Representation Types
- The Locus Amoenus
- The Holy Walk
- Everyday Life-Situations
- These Days - From Painting to Film
- I Always Wanted to Be a Tenenbaum - Fragility of the Ideal Family Construction
- Needle in the Hay - The Path from Image to Imaginary
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Discography
- The Reconstruction of a Jewish Imaginary. Susanne Mogul's Documentary Driving Men as an Identifying Practice
- Religious Imaginary at the Crossroad of Different Theories
- A Semio-Pragmatic Approach to Documentaries
- Communication Strategies of a Filmic Imaginary
- Susan Mogul's Jewish Family
- Questioning Tradition and Relationships
- Relationships and Sexuality
- Sharing Tradition
- In Search of a Jewish History
- Making Documentaries as an Imaginative Practice
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Catholic Iconography, Cultural Memory and Imaginaries. The Sacred Heart in Irish Emigrant Identity
- Disentangling Memory and Imaginaries
- Entangled Definitions
- Cultural Memory
- Cultural Imaginary
- Bleeding Love: The Sacred Heart-Image in I Could Read the Sky
- Heart of Europe: The Sacred Heart Image and Irish-Catholic Self-identity
- A Different Beat: Sacred Heart and western European popular culture
- Disentangled Threads? Cultural Memory and Cultural Imaginary
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Imagining Religion in the Public Space. Religious References in Contemporary Art
- Imagining Religion in the Public Space
- Approaches to the Museum as a Public Space
- The Role of the Cultural Imaginary
- The Recipient between Imaginary and Imagination
- The Perspective of the Exhibition
- The Context
- Transmission of Ancient Knowledge
- Religious Narrative, Symbols and Practices
- The Perspective of Representation
- World of Plenty as a Case Study
- Religious References
- A Multi-Layered Reception
- Reviews in the Media
- Religious Activities in the Museum
- Individual Feedback
- Negotiation of Religions
- Bibliography
- The Journey of a Symbol through Western Imaginaries. The Curious Case of the Apple
- What Is the Imaginary?
- The Symbolic Universe of an Apple
- The Advertising Apple
- How Do People Imagine the Apple?
- Question: Why Is Apple Inc. Called 'Apple'?
- Question: What does the Apple Represent in Desperate Housewives?
- Travelling Images, Shifting Imaginaries
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Towards a 'Circuit of Technological Imaginaries'. A Theoretical Approach
- Prelude
- Contexts and Definitions
- Scientific Imaginaries
- Technological Imaginaries
- Imaginary Designs: Technologies, Fantasies and Aesthetics
- Transcending Worlds: Religious Implications of Technological Imaginaries
- The 'Circuit of Technological Imaginaries'
- Body
- Narratives
- Aesthetics
- Sublime
- Materiality
- Agency
- Bibliography
- Authors
- List of Figures
- Index of Keywords
