Religion and Media

Contributors xiii PART I. INTRODUCING THE CONCEPTS In Media Res: Global Religion, Public Spheres, and the Task of Contemporary Comparative Religious Studies 3(40) Hent de Vries Religion, Repetition, Media 43(13) Samuel Weber ``Above All, No Journalists!'' 56(38) Jacques Derrida Theory on TV: ``After-Thoughts'' 94(18) Laurence A. Rickels Samuel Weber The Deconstruction of Christianity 112(19) Jean-Luc Nancy Reading a Modern Classic: W. C. Smith's The Meaning and End of the Religion 131(20) Talal Asad PART II. SEEING AND BELIEVING: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS Mimesis and the Ban on Graven Images 151(12) Gertrud Koch In the Workshop of Equivalences: Translation, Institutions, and Media in the Jesuit Re-Formation of China 163(19) Haun Saussy Images of Iron: Ignatius of Loyola and Joyce 182(16) Burcht Pranger Luther with McLuhan 198(18) Manfred Schneider Tele-vision: Between Blind Trust and Perceptual Faith 216(11) Jenny Slatman ``The Catholicism of Cinema'': Gilles Deleuze on Image and Belief 227(14) Paola Marrati Mission Impossible: Postcards, Pictures, and Parasites 241(30) Mieke Bal PART III. LOCAL RITES, GLOBAL MEDIA: CRITICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES Kiblat and the Mediatic Jew 271(33) James T. Siegel The Cassowary Will (Not) Be Photographed: The ``Primitive,'' the ``Japanese,'' and the Elusive ``Sacred'' (Aru, Southeast Moluccas) 304(16) Patricia Spyer A Remaking of Hinduism?: or, Taking the Mickey Out of Valmiki 320(19) Julius Lipner Mirror Image: Layered Narratives in Photographic and Televised Mediations of Ise's Shikinen Sengu 339(37) Rosemarie Bernard Reconciliation Without Justice 376(12) Mahmood Mamdani Channel-Surfing: Media, Mediumship, and State Authority in the Maria Lionza Possession Cult (Venezuela) 388(47) Rafael Sanchez Production of Fundamentalism: On the Dynamics of Producing the Radically Different 435(21) Werner Schiffauer Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and Religion in Iranian Cinema 456(31) Michael M. J. Fischer The Aboriginal Medium: Negotiating the Caesura of Exchange 487(27) Andrew McNamara Before the Law: Reading the Yuendumu Doors with Eric Michaels 514(17) Rex Butler PART IV. TWO DOCUMENTS The Religious Medium 531(24) Theodor W. Adorno Morality and the Secrets of Religion 555(14) Niklas Luhmann Notes 569