Picturing the Invisible

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" Picturing the Invisible "
Birgit Meyer

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077879
Doc. No	:	LA121508
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341357‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Birgit Meyer
Title & Author	:	Picturing the Invisible [Article]\ Birgit Meyer
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Method Theory in the Study of Religion
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	27/4-5
Page No	:	333–360
Abstract	:	An understanding of religion as a practice of mediation has great potential to open up new methods and theories for a critical study of religion. Leading beyond the privileged medium of the text, this understanding approaches religion as a multi-media phenomenon that mobilizes the full sensorium. The central point of this article is that forms of visual culture are a prime medium of religion, and studying them offers deep insights into the genesis of worlds of lived experience. Pictorial media streamline and sustain religious notions of the visible and the invisible and involve embodied practices of seeing that shape what and how people see. Discussing the implications of the “pictorial turn” for the study of religion, I argue that a more synthesized approach is needed that draws these fields together. The methodological and theoretical implications of this approach are exemplified by turning to my research on video and representations of the “spiritual” in Southern Ghana.
Descriptor	:	form
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Ghana
Descriptor	:	mediation
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	video
Descriptor	:	visual regimes
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341357‬