Table of Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contributors iv
3. Preface vii
4. Table of Contents ix
5. Contributors xiii
6. Part I Introducing the Concepts
7. Introducing the Concepts 1
8. Religion, Repetition, Media 43
9. “Above All, No Journalists!” 56
10. Theory on TV: “After-Thoughts” Laurence A. Rickels talks with Samuel Weber 94
11. The Deconstruction of Christianity 112
12. Jean-Luc Nancy Reading a Modern Classic: W. C. Smith’s ‘The Meaning and End of Religion’ 131
13. Part II Seeing and Believing: Historical and Philosophical Considerations
14. Mimesis and the Ban on Graven Images 149
15. In the Workshop of Equivalences: Translation, Institutions, and Media in the Jesuit Re-Formation of China 163
16. Images of Iron: Ignatius of Loyola and Joyce 182
17. Luther with McLuhan 198
18. Tele-vision: Between Blind Trust and Perceptual Faith 216
19. “The Catholicism of Cinema”: Gilles Deleuze on Image and Belief 227
20. Mission Impossible: Postcards, Pictures, and Parasites 241
21. Part III Local Rites, Global Media: Critical and Anthropological Approaches
22. ‘Kiblat’ and the Mediatic Jew 269
23. The Cassowary Will (Not) Be Photographed: The “Primitive,” the “Japanese,” and the Elusive “Sacred” (Aru, Southeast Moluccas) 304
24. A Remaking of Hinduism? or, Taking the Mickey Out of Valmiki 320
25. Mirror Image: Layered Narratives in Photographic and Televised Mediations of Ise’s Shikinen Sengu 339
26. Reconciliation Without Justice 376
27. Channel-Surfing: Media, Mediumship, and State Authority in the María Lionza Possession Cult (Venezuela) 388
28. Production of Fundamentalism: On the Dynamics of Producing the Radically Different 435
29. Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and Religion in Iranian Cinema 456
30. The Aboriginal Medium: Negotiating the Caesura of Exchange 487
31. Before the Law: Reading the Yuendumu Doors with Eric Michaels 514
32. Part IV Two Documents
33. The Religious Medium 529
34. Morality and the Secrets of Religion 555
35. Notes 569
36. Cultural Memory in the Present 651