Seminar Research Question:
What can we learn learn from looking at religion and media and crime that we could not learn otherwise, i.e. by looking at just two areas out of these three? More details about the projects are available on the project page.
Paper Session 1: Historic Assessment of the Religion-Media-Crime Triangle
Early modern representations of idolatry and sacrifice: Paola von Wyss-Giacosa
The 7th century Scottish/Irish Law of Adomnan of Iona: Sean Ryan
‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’ (Exodus 22:18): Justice for witches and the witch villages of Ghana in colonial and post-colonial legislations: Ann Jeffers
Paper Session 2: Police and Imprisonment and the Religion-Media-Crime Triangle
Narrativizing redemption at the Sing Sing Prison Museum: Laura Simpson
Sex Workers, Decriminalization, Religious Media: Alexander Ornella & Bev Orton
Portraying Police and Religion in Philadelphia: Nathaniel Grimes
Faith as communicative resistance: The case of political inmates in the Philippines: Tobias Brandner
Paper Session 3: Fictional Representations of Religion and Crime
Religion and Crime in the Brenner Mysteries by Wolf Haas: Stefanie Knauss
Foucault’s panopticon in science fiction representations of artificial intelligence: Jochen Mündlein
Watching Images of Killing: Mediatisation of Crime: Daria Pezzoli-Olgiat
The Interplay of Killing and Religious Themes in Contemporary Polish Cinema: Adam Domalewski
Paper Session 4: Taking Religion-Media-Crime to the Streets
Eye for an Eye or Mercy Seat? Crime, Punishment, and God in Nick Cave’s Music: Natalie Fritz
Transcendence and Crime in Sherlock Holmes (TV series): Verena Eberhardt
Police and Religion in Horror Movies (e.g. The Conjuring (James Wan, US 2013): Luise Merkert
When Churches Burn: Crime in Black Metal: Anna Höpflinger
