Following is an updated Call for Papers for a Special
Issue of _Polygraph_. The new submission deadline
is October 1. Inquiries before that date are encouraged.
Amardeep Singh
as1@duke.edu
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Call for Papers:
"Polygraph 12: World Religions and Media Culture" will
explore the role of religion in the mass-media, as both a
broadening of the critical debates in media studies and as a
study of religious community, practice, and discourse in
an age of 'global cultural flow'. How has the very concept
of religion been transformed following the development of
broadcast media such as radio, cinema, television, and the internet?
To what extent can religion be figured as culture, and how is
it transmitted across cultural boundaries? 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, especially
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:
Syncretisms and the Globalization of Religion
"Race," Religion, and Difference
Clintonian Interventionism
Falun Gong: Media, Politics, and Practice
Black Liberation Theology, Rastafarianism, and the 5% Nation
Communalism and Mass Conversion in South Asia
Liberation Theology
Images of Terrorism
Walter Benjamin: Auras, Commodities, Beliefs
The Smart-Bombs of Ramadan
Actually Existing _Fundamentalism_
Religion to Ideology/Ideology as Religion
"Ethnic Strife" and Religious Difference
Iranian Cinema and the Iranian Revolution
The Limits of Secularism
Religion and Internet Censorship
Promise-Keeping and American Mass-revivalism
Televangelism
Auratic Television
Talmudic Marxism
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Email inquiries or submissions to:
polygraph@duke.edu.
Or mail to:
Polygraph
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Box 90670
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
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