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(1997), Religions of Japan in Practice (1999), and finally Religions of Korea in
Practice (2002).
7 Of the forty-eight essays spanning several disciplines, at least twenty-four
explicitly reference obvious religion material in their titles (terms such as God,
soul, sacrifice, Upanishad, religious, Christ, Hungry Ghost, Heaven, Bible,
divine, consecrated etc.). In their substance, however, virtually all of them discuss
matters from the archive designated as “religious.” The field of embodiment
studies is vast: for overviews pertaining to religious studies, see Coakley 1997
and LaFleur 1998.
8 He relies heavily on Swidler 2001.
9 A very powerful and concise essay that tries to accomplish this for the concept
“culture” is Masuzawa 1998.
10 She notes the debt to Bourdieu’s notion of “the field of cultural production”
(2002: 3; 1999: 296) and calls this “the social life of media” (1999: 295). “One
might think of these linked processes of the cultural production of media, its
circulation as social technology and the relationship of mediated worlds to self-
fabrication as existing on a continuum” (1999: 299). This continuum ranges
from self-conscious activism, to reflexive but less strategic engagements of self-
fashioning to institutionalized mass media. Ginsburg and I cofounded the Center
for Religion and Media at New York University in 2003, and her influence is
obvious in our shared work http://www.nyu.edu/fas/center/religionandmedia/
11 In 2000, Meyer opened a collaborative project on “Modern Mass Media,
Religion and the Imagination of Communities.” Visit http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/
media-religion/
12 For an excellent discussion of this problem through its philosophical genealogy,
see De Vries 2001: 4–32.