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Atmospheric resonance: Sonic motion and the question of religious mediation
- Author(s):
- Patrick Eisenlohr (see profile)
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network, Anthropology, Music and Sound, Religious Studies, Society for Music Theory (SMT)
- Subject(s):
- Atmosphere
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Sonic religion, religious media, Religion and media, media and religion, atmospheres
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/cg0j-q966
- Abstract:
- Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a different understanding of religious mediation from the one developed in contexts where images, objects, and technical media dominate. Based on research on the recitation of Urdu devotional poetry among Mauritian Muslims, it is suggested that sonic religion does not function as a stable in-between connecting humans and the divine. Instead, it operates through processes of resonant bundling, intertwining different strands of lived experience, including religious traditions.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 months ago
- License:
- Attribution
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