Picturing the Invisible : Visual Culture and the Study of Religion
Picturing the Invisible : Visual Culture and the Study of Religion
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描绘无形之物:视觉文化与宗教研究
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2015
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B. Meyer
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B. Meyer
将宗教理解为一种调解的实践，有很大的潜力为宗教的批判性研究开辟新的方法和理论。这种理解超越了文本的特权媒介，将宗教视为一种调动全部感官的多媒体现象。本文的中心点是视觉文化形式是宗教的主要媒介，研究它们可以深入了解生活经验世界的起源。图片媒体简化和维持可见和不可见的宗教观念，并涉及具体的实践，塑造人们看到什么和如何看到。讨论宗教研究的“图像转向”的影响，我认为，需要一个更综合的方法，把这些领域在一起。这种方法的方法论和理论的影响是通过转向我的研究在加纳南部的“精神”的视频和表示。
An understanding of religion as a practice of mediation has great potential to open up new methods and theories for a critical study of religion. Leading beyond the privileged medium of the text, this understanding approaches religion as a multi-media phenomenon that mobilizes the full sensorium. The central point of this article is that forms of visual culture are a prime medium of religion, and studying them offers deep insights into the genesis of worlds of lived experience. Pictorial media streamline and sustain religious notions of the visible and the invisible and involve embodied practices of seeing that shape what and how people see. Discussing the implications of the “pictorial turn” for the study of religion, I argue that a more synthesized approach is needed that draws these fields together. The methodological and theoretical implications of this approach are exemplified by turning to my research on video and representations of the “spiritual” in Southern Ghana.