Religion and media: A critical review of recent developments
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This article considers recent changes in the definition of religion and of media as
the basis for framing the study of their relation to one another and recent research
in the intersection they have come to form over the last two decades or so. The history,
materiality, and reception of each have colored scholarly work, and made ethnography,
practice, material culture, and embodiment key aspects of scholarship. A new paradigm
for some scholars for studying mediation is aesthetics—no longer understood as the
“philosophy of the beautiful,” but as the study of perception in the mediated practices
that make up lived religion.
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10.1177/2050303213506476Publication Info
Morgan, D (2013). Religion and media: A critical review of recent developments. Critical Research on Religion, 1(3). 10.1177/2050303213506476. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16639.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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David Morgan
Professor of Religious Studies
David Morgan is Professor of Religious Studies with a secondary appointment in the
Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke. He chaired the Department
of Religious Studies from 2013 to 2019. Morgan received the Ph.D. at the University
of Chicago in 1990. He is currently Director of Graduate Studies in Duke's PhD program
in Religion. He has published several books and dozens of essays on the history of
religious visual culture, fine art, and art theory. Images at Work: The M

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