RT Article
T1 Light Mediations: Introduction
JF Material religion
VO 16
IS 1
SP 1
OP 8
A1 Meyer, Birgit 1960-
A1 Stolow, Jeremy 1965-
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1691095893
AB This introduction argues that the study of light and lighting devices, and the light mediations yielded by them, is important for scholars of material religion. Discussing the four articles on aesthetics of light in Christianity, we argue that synthesizing metaphorical and physical uses of light allows for a deep understanding of the processes through which a professedly immaterial transcendent becomes real for religious practitioners in the material world. Inspired by these contributions and the two essays in the In Conversation section, we plead for a methodology of following the light in scholarly research.
K1 aesthetics of light
K1 golden retables
K1 magic lantern
K1 media and mediation
K1 media spectacles
K1 megachurch lighting
K1 stained class
DO 10.1080/17432200.2019.1696557