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RELIGION IN CULTURAL IMAGINARY


The edited volume Religion in Cultural Imaginary was published in 2015. The multivalent concept of the imaginary is utilized to capture the presence and diffusion of religious references, symbols, worldviews and narratives in various media and social spheres, including politics, economics, art and popular culture. Used to describe the reception and transformation of religious references through time and cultures, imaginary can be defined as a shared pool of mental images and material products, of ideas, symbols, values and practices that sustain meaning-making processes and cohesion within a collective. Situated at the intersection of sociological, political-philosophical, and cultural studies approaches to religion, this interdisciplinary study offers an intense exchange between theoretical discussions of religion in cultural imaginaries and richly researched empirical analysis.


Religion in Cultural Imaginary. Explorations in Visual und Material Practices (Baden-Baden/ Zürich: Nomos/ Pano 2015).

The video accessed here presents the sources used in the project: Religion in Cultural Imaginary (Marie-Therese Mäder, CH 2015)

 

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