TY - BOOK AU - Dreschke,Anja AU - Behrend,Heike AU - Böhme,Claudia AU - Dreschke,Anja AU - Guzy,Lidia AU - Holl,Ute AU - Hüwelmeier,Gertrud AU - Kendall,Laurel AU - Morris,Rosalind C. AU - Pinney,Christopher AU - Schulz,Dorothea E. AU - Schüttpelz,Erhard AU - Spadola,Emilio AU - Zillinger,Martin TI - Trance Mediums and New Media: Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction SN - 9780823253807 U1 - 133.9/1 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - Channeling (Spiritualism) KW - Congresses KW - Globalization KW - Mass media and anthropology KW - Technology KW - Anthropology KW - Cinema & Media Studies KW - Religion KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion KW - bisacsh KW - cine-trance KW - ecstatic practices KW - media / new media KW - media anthropology KW - media KW - mediumship KW - religion studies KW - religion KW - spirit possession KW - spirituality KW - trance N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Trance Mediums and New Media --; On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media --; Trance Mediums and New Media: The Heritage of a European Term --; Absence and the Mediation of the Audiovisual Unconscious --; New Media and Traveling Spirits: Pentecostals in the Vietnamese Diaspora and the Disaster of the Titanic --; Numinous Dress/Iconic Costume: Korean Shamans Dressed for the Gods and for the Camera --; Rites of Reception: Mass-Mediated Trance and Public Order in Morocco --; Media and Manifestation: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plenitude in Central India --; Media Transformations: Music, Goddess Embodiment, and Politics in Western Orissa/India --; Transmitting Divine Grace: On the Materiality of Charismatic Mediation in Mali --; Spaces of Refusal: Photophobic Spirits and the Technical Medium of Photography --; ‘‘Look with Your Own Eyes!’’: Visualizations of Spirit Mediums and Their Viewing Techniques in Tanzanian Video Films --; Possession Play: On Cinema, Reenactment, and Trance in the Cologne Tribes --; Trance Techniques, Cinema, and Cybernetics --; Notes --; Works Cited --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Ongoing debates about the “return of religion” have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact that historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was closely linked to the development of new media of communication.This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema, video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media? Why are certain technical media shunned in these contexts? UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823253838?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823253838 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823253838/original ER -