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Seminar
SoSe 16: Religion and Sound Media
Anna Kvicalova
Comments
Western religious tradition has been always bound up with different perceptual projects governing the management of the senses, in which the sensory experience was both restrained (plugging the ears, covering the eyes, forbidding the touch), disciplined (keeping silence, fasting, sitting motionlessly) and celebrated (listening to angelic harmonies, touching the relics). By focusing both on discourses around the senses and on the ways in which the sensorium was exercised in day-to-day practice, the seminar will consider not only how different religious systems valued and shaped specific modes of sense perception, but also how historical patterns of sensory experience helped to construct religious identities. close
Suggested reading
Knut Lundby (ed.), Religion Across Media: From Antiquity to Late Modernity, New York 2013; Sally, M. Promey (ed.), Sensational Religion: Sensory Cultures in Material Practice, New Haven/London 2014. Mark M. Smith, Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History, Berkeley/Los Angeles 2007. Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion and American Enlightenment, Cambridge/Massachusetts/London 2002. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2016-04-21 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-04-28 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-05-12 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-05-19 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-05-26 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-06-02 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-06-09 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-06-16 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-06-23 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-06-30 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-07-07 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-07-14 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2016-07-21 12:00 - 14:00