Project Aim: The aim of the project is to explore the complex and complicated relationship between religion, media, and crime. We want to ask the question: What can we learn from looking at the religion-media-crime triangle about society that we could not otherwise learn by looking at religion and media, or religion and crime, or …
We are pleased to announce that the outcomes of our last research project “Imagining Europe” has now been published as open source book with Nomos. Abstract What is Europe exactly? How are ideas of Europe represented? What do we think of when we speak about religion in representations of Europe? And how does religion shape …
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Our “Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Present” project just got published with Nomos, ed. by Marie-Therese Mäder, Alberto Saviello, Baldassare Scolari. The book is full open access and we hope you enjoy reading it!
Religion, Media, Normativity The new project of the International Exchange on Media and Religion focuses on a theoretical question that has so far been neglected in research on media and religion. We are interested in deepening the understanding of the normative dimension of (audio-)visual and material communication within religious traditions and in exploring their influence …
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Duration: 2014–2018 The study of Victorian Highgate Cemetery in London, which remains in use, is our recent research project of the network International Exchange on Media and Religion and with Heythrop College at the University of London, UK, T. The central questions concern the performativity of images – the (re)- presentation, (re)-production, use and reception …
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The members of the Imaginaries Network published their Religion in Cultural Imaginary findings. Here you can find the Table of Contents and the paper abstracts: Religion in Cultural Imaginary. Explorations in Visual und Material Practices Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati (ed.), Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2015. Publisher Website Nomos Buy on Amazon .com / .co.uk / .de You can also …
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In 2011, the research network Religious Images and Cultural Imaginaries started to meet for regular seminars to discuss the central question to what extent the category “imaginary” might be a helpful heuristic tool to engage with the complexity and plurality of meanings and meaning-making processes in society. In particular, we are interested in how the …
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Introduction of the new topic: images as socio-religious practice Paolo Costa, Why do practices need images? inaugurated the new focus on images as socio-religious practices with a philosophical overview on the role of images as a necessary part of meaning making processes that motivates and establish social practice. His contribution, developed in reception of Charles …
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This project of the International Exchange on Media and Religion focuses on images as cultural products that enable a wide range of practices within or in interaction with religious symbol systems. We will begin with a critical discussion of selected theoretical frameworks that allow an analysis of (audio)visual media as social practices related to religious …
The aim of this project was to discuss different methodological approaches to visual media. One of the main tasks of the seminar was the critical characterisation of the different approaches to images, considering their focuses and limits. Being an interdisciplinary exchange, the concern is to find coherence within the project, while leaving space to different …