[Air-L] Special issue on "Aesthetics and the Dimension of the Senses" of "Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" released!
Simone Heidbrink
simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Sun Nov 28 00:25:32 PST 2010
Dear list-members,
We are happy to announce the release of the special issue of "Online -
Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" on "Aesthetics and the
Dimension of the Senses"! (Please see: http://www.online.uni-hd.de/.)
When we look on the various representations of religious groups and
individuals on personal homepages, in weblogs, in virtual worlds or the
like and when we follow their
communications on religious topics online, the visual and auditive
aspects of the medium seem to play a major role. Using pictures, videos,
icons, as well as music and other sounds,
the internet users can design a multisensual virtual environment which
might implicate its own notion of ‘aesthetics’.
As the aesthetic and sensual dimensions of religions and rituals on the
internet have long been a neglected area of research, we called upon
theoretical and methodical reflection as well as on empiric studies
referring to these topics. - And many renowned scholars answered with
interesting and inspiring articles with which we hope to contribute and
give some impulse to the still ongoing discussion on the different
theoretical, methodical and methodological approaches to “aesthetics and
the dimension of the senses” in the context of religion and religious
practice online.
Table of Content:
Simone Heidbrink / Nadja Miczek: Introduction to the Special Issue:
Religions on the Internet – Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses
Louise Connelly: Virtual Buddhism: An Analysis of Aesthetics in Relation
to Religious Practice within Second Life
Gregory Grieve: Virtually Embodying the Field: Silent Online Meditation,
Immersion, and the Cardean Ethnographic Method
Tim Hutchings: The Politics of Familiarity: Visual, Liturgical and
Organisational Conformity in the Online Church
Anna Piela: Challenging Stereotypes: Muslim Women's Photographic Self-
Representations on the Internet
Paul Teusner: Imaging Religious Identity: Intertextual Play among
Postmodern Christian Bloggers
Theo Zijderfeld: The Transformation of the Prayer Wall
Christopher Helland: (Virtually) been there, (Virtually) done that:
Examining the Online Religious Practices of the Hindu Tradition:
Introduction.
Phyllis K. Herman: Seeing the Divine through Windows: Online Puja and
Virtual Religious Experience
Nicole Karapanagiotis: Vaishnava Cyber-Pūjā: Problems of Purity and
Novel Ritual Solutions
Heinz Scheifinger: Hindu Embodiment and the Internet
Best regards,
Simone Heidbrink
Nadja Miczek
(editors)
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Simone Heidbrink, M.A.
SFB 619 Ritualdynamik - Teilprojekt C2
Institut für Religionswissenschaft
Universität Heidelberg
Akademiestr. 4-8
D - 69117 Heidelberg
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