Page 6 - Aesthetic Formations Media, religion, and the Sense

Contents

List of Illustrations vii
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Preface xi

Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic
Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms, and
Styles of Binding 1
Birgit Meyer

Part 1 Boundary Politics
1 “Don’t Ask Questions, Just Observe!”
Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomblé 31
Mattijs van de Port
2 Purity and the Devil: Community, Media, and the Body.
Pentecostal Adherents in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro 53
Martijn Oosterbaan
3 “More Sexpression Please!” Screening the Female Voice and
Body in the Bangladesh Film Industry 71
Lotte Hoek

Part 2 Religion in the Public Realm
4 Tamil Mythological Cinema and the
Politics of Secular Modernism 93
Stephen Putnam Hughes
5 Islamic Renewal, Radio, and the Surface of Things 117
Brian Larkin