CALL FOR PAPERS
for a Special Issue of _Polygraph_:
"World Religions and Media Culture"
"Polygraph 12: World Religions and Media Culture" will explore how
contemporary religious movements articulate themselves through the
mass-media. How has the very concept of religion been transformed
following the development of broadcast media such as ra dio, cinema,
television, and the internet? To what extent can religion be figured as
culture, and can it be a form of "global cultural flow"? Are postmodern
religious formations emerging?
While it is true that religion has often been deployed coercively and
violently, we are interested in approaching the subject as a more complex
and multivalent phenomenon than many "secular" liberal critics have
allowed. On the one hand, religion is often mistakenly pinpointed as
determining instances of conflict when other discourses may be more
important: class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Also, religion
has contributed significantly to anticolonial and antirepressive struggles
worldwide, es pecially in the Caribbean, Africa, South Asia, and Latin
America. What kinds of relationships exist between religious and political
movements in global media culture?
Topics could include:
Liberation Theology
Images of Terrorism
Walter Benjamin: Auras, Commodities, Beliefs
The Smart-Bombs of Ramadan
Actually Existing _Fundamentalism_
Religion to Ideology/Ideology as Religion
Black Liberation Theology, Rastafarianism, and the 5% Nation
"Race," Religion, and Difference
"Ethnic Strife" and Religious Difference
Iranian Cinema and the Iranian Revolution
Syncretisms and the Globalization of Religion
The Limits of Secularism
Religion and Internet Censorship
Promise-Keeping and American Mass-revivalism
Televangelism
Auratic Television
Talmudic Marxism
Mass-Conversion and Communalism in South Asia
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Direct inquiries to polygraph@duke.edu.
Deadline for Papers is September 15, 1999.
Send completed manuscripts with Diskette to:
_Polygraph_
Art Museum 104
Box 90670
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Or email attachments (in MS Word) to: as1@duke.edu.
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_Polygraph_ is an international journal of culture and politics
strongly affiliated with the literature program of Duke University.
Past issues have featured work by Fredric Jameson, Edward Said,
and Lawrence Grossberg. For more information see our website:
http://www.duke.edu/~as1/pg/polygraph.html.
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