Critical Visual Religion Approach
When Ethnographic Filmmaking Blends with the Critical Approach to Religion, a Japanese Case Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3735958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilaria Vecchi (0000-0002-0811-1456, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 255 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13030255 |
| OpenAlex | W4220880915 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
This article draws on the research and practice developed during my doctorate and fieldwork in Japan. In this work, I consider the implication of using the critical religion approach and the visual ethnographic methodology for critically investigating what is commonly labelled as religion and its representation as observed in Japan with particular reference to my fieldwork in Tohoku. I begin by reviewing the concept of religion in Japan, in particular the character of the idea and the use of the critical religion approach. I continue with an analysis of ethnographic filmmaking, focusing on cases that inspired my visual ethnographic filmic approach. I discuss how the two methods informed each other, creating a visual ethnographic technique founded on the critical religion approach as well as sensory, participatory and creative ethnographic filmmaking methods I developed and applied to my documentary, Tohoku Monogatari-A Story from the Northeast of Japan. With this article, I contend the necessity of a critical approach to the representation of religions which could be achieved with what I named the critical visual religion approach
Aesthetics · Art · Citizen journalism · Critical ethnography · Epistemology · Ethnography · Filmmaking · Political science · Sociology · Visual anthropology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty
The Relevance of Fitzgerald’s Critical Approach to the Study of Religions in Asia
Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research
The Ideology of Religious Studies
Visual Methods in Social Research
The Category of ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan
The Conceptual Formation of the Category “Religion” in Modern Japan
Observations on the Blurring of the Religious and the Secular in a Japanese Urban Setting
The Invention of Religion in Japan
The past is a foreign country’
Enactive Filmmaking
Doing Sensory Ethnography
Is an Ethnographic Film a Filmic Ethnography
A critique of "religion" as a cross-cultural category1
The Invention of Japanese Religions
Travelling Concepts
Making space for discursive study in religious studies
Imperialist Nostalgia
Transcultural Cinema
Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom
Can Film Show the Invisible
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |