Religious Remediations

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ID7097722
AuthorsBirgit Meyer (0000-0003-4883-7937)
Year2005
Volume1
Issue2-3
Pages155-181
Publication date2005-12-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePostscripts The Journal of Sacred Texts Cultural Histories and Contemporary Contexts (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-887X • E-ISSN: 1743-8888
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/post.v1i2_3.155
OpenAlexW2012722591
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited19

This article addresses the interface of video-films and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. This interface, it is argued, needs to be examined from a position that transcends the confines of film studies and religious studies and leaves behind a secularist perspective on the relationship between religion and film. On the basis of detailed ethnographic research, it is shown that, far from standing apart from the realm of religious beliefs, video-films call upon audio-visual technologies so as to remediate Pentecostal views of the invisible world around which Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity evolves. Video-films invoke a “techno-religious realism” that addresses spectators in such a way that they authorize video representations as authentic. Transcending facile oppositions of technology and belief, media and authenticity, and entertainment and religion, video-films are shown to achieve immediacy and authenticity not at the expense of, but thanks to, media technologies and practices of remediation

Aesthetics · Art · Charisma · Christianity · Entertainment · Epistemology · Immediacy · Mainstream · Media studies · Movie theater · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Realism · Realm · Sociology · Theology · Visual arts · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

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