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Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination
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Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media
Islamic Renewal, Radio, and the Surface of Things
In: Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), pp. 117-136
Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.
"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)
Breath, Technology, and the Making of Community: Canção Nova in Brazil
In: Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), pp. 161-182
Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.
"Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film
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[Religious Film]
Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 149-374
Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-Secular World
Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 149-347
Religious Remediations: Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies
Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 155-181
"This article addresses the interface of video-films and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. This interface, it is argued, needs to be examined from a position that transcends the confines of film studies and religious studies and leaves behind a secularist perspective on the relationship
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Die Erotik des Bösen: Mami Water als "christlicher" Dämon in ghaniaschen und nigerianischen Videos
In: Africa screams: Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult
Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (2004), pp. 199-209
"Praise the Lord": Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana’s New Public Sphere
American Ethnologist, volume 31, issue 1 (2004), pp. 92-110
"In this article I examine the elective affinity between Pentecostalism and the vibrant video-film industry that has flourished in the wake of Ghana’s adoption of a democratic constitution. I argue that, as a result of the liberalization and commercialization of the media, a new public sphere has
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Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision and Video Technology in Ghana
Mainz: Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien Universität Mainz (2003), 22 pp.
"In this essay I have tried to show how, by taking as point of departure an understanding of religion as a practice of mediation, Pentecostalism has increasingly ‘taken place’, so to speak, in the public sphere as a result of Ghana’s turn to democracy and the liberalization and commercializati
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Pentecostalism, Prosperity and Popular Cinema in Ghana
Culture and Religion, volume 3, issue 1 (2002), pp. 67-87
"As a result of the liberalisation and commercialisation of the media in the wake of Ghana's return to a democratic constitution in 1992, there has emerged a new public sphere which has been successfully and effectively colonised by Pentecostal-charismatic churches and led to the rise of a Pentecost
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