African pastors and the religious (re)production of a visual culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18979308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Cazarin (0000-0002-5693-5628, Department of Sociology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHUISOR – Research in Sociology of Religion, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 21 (3) |
| Pages | 463-477 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Etnografica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0873-6561 • E-ISSN: 2182-2891 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/etnografica.4980 |
| OpenAlex | W2794205046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
The (re)production of visual material is an extended practice amongst Pentecostal-Charismatics worldwide and church leaders seem to play a decisive role in engendering such practice. While promoting spiritual missions and institutional visions, pastors reinforce their personae in accordance to the “spiritual gifts” they perform. This article explores the forging of a visual culture that legitimates such performances, through the usage of posters and flyers which, it is argued, feature a particular speech. The arguments emerge from the observed cases of African pastors located in Spain and South Africa and the “discovery” of these visual representations through ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2012 and 2015. The ascription of meaning to such materials is achieved by focusing on the graphic portrayal of emotions, religious experiences, ethos and morality, aligned with a somewhat “African Pentecostal speech”. It is suggested that, by engendering a “speech community”, this graphic language reflects the global and local quests for belonging faced by worshippers in the Diaspora
Aesthetics · Art · Ascription · Diaspora · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ethos · Morality · Political science · Sociology · Spiritual practice · Spirituality · Vision · Visual culture · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |