Screening the Father of Lights: Documentary Film and the Aesthetics of the Nonfictional in Contemporary Religion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Table of Contents IX
4. What is an Aesthetics of Religion? From the Senses to Meaning—and Back Again 1
5. List of Figures 51
6. PART I. Fields and Topics
7. Grasping the Formless in Stones: The Petromorphic Gods of the Hindu Pañcāyatanapūjā 59
8. Religion, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Expressionism 75
9. Screening the Father of Lights: Documentary Film and the Aesthetics of the Nonfictional in Contemporary Religion 103
10. The Literary Aesthetics of Religious Narratives: Probing Literary-Aesthetic Form, Emotion, and Sensory Effects in Exodus 7–11 121
11. PART II. History and Politics
12. Below the Horizon of Meaning: Figuration, Disfiguration, Transfiguration 147
13. The Performative Knowledge of Ecstasy: Jane E. Harrison’s (1850–1928) Early Contestations of the Textual Paradigm in Religious Studies 161
14. What Does a Reformed City Look Like? – Changes in Visible Religion During the Reformation in Bremen 189
15. Standing, Not Walking – The Hieratic as a Key Term of an Anthropologically Based Aesthetics of Religion 211
16. PART III. Comparison and Transfer
17. Blue Brains: Aesthetic Ideologies and the Formation of Knowledge Between Religion and Science 237
18. Aesthetic Dimensions and Transformative Dynamics of Mimetic Acts: The Veneration of Habib-i Neccar Among Muslims and Christians in Antakya, Turkey 271
19. Aestheticisation and the Production of (Religious) Space in Chennai 301
20. Moving Religion by Sound: On the Effectiveness of the Nāda-Brahman in India and Modern Europe 323
21. PART IV. Concepts and Theories
22. Esoteric Aesthetics: The Spiritual Matter of Intersubjective Encounter 349
23. Aesthetics of Immersion: Collective Effervescence, Bodily Synchronisation and the Sensory Navigation of the Sacred 367
24. The Governance of Aesthetic Subjects Through Body Knowledge and Affect Economies. A Cognitive-Aesthetic Approach 389
25. Religion in the Flesh: Non-Reductive Materialism and the Ecological Aesthetics of Religion 413
26. PART V. In Conversation: Essays About the Connectivity of an Aesthetics of Religion
27. Subjects and Sense-Making 437
28. Consumer Culture and the Sensory Remodelling of Religion 447
29. Social Aesthetics, Atmosphere and Proprioception 457
30. Semiotics and Aesthetics: Historical and Structural Connections 465
31. The Artificiality of Aesthetics: Making Connections on the Erie Canal 473
32. Authors Biographies 483
33. Index 491