Exploring the Atmosphere Inside a Liturgical Laboratory

Gregersen, Andreas Melson

doi:10.1080/17432200.2021.1945990

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“…Actor-network theory (ANT), as outlined for example by Bruno Latour and John Law, 6 is a socio-material approach from which we draw our own understanding of digitally mediated preaching. Despite having its origin in studies of science and technology (STS), ANT has recently been employed in several fields adjacent to homiletics to analyze various religious practices, including the fields of theology and pastoral learning (Reite 2013(Reite , 2015Holmqvist 2014;Johnsen 2015;Holtedahl 2017;Ideström 2016;Kaufman and Ideström 2018;Gregersen 2021;Kaufman and Mosdøl 2018;Johnsen and Afdal 2020;Ledstam and Afdal 2020).…”

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Understanding the Paradox of (Im)Perfection: An Actor-Network Approach to Digitally Mediated Preaching

Mannerfelt

Kaufman

2023

Religions

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This paper adds to the growing body of literature on digitally mediated preaching by using actor–network theory (ANT) in conjunction with Amanda Lagerkvist’s work on digital media as theoretical lenses to describe and discuss what we term “the paradox of (im)perfection”. This paradox refers to the tension between an ideal of perfection and an ideal of imperfection (or vulnerability) as experienced by church practitioners who were “thrown” online abruptly and unexpectedly due to the pandemic. In our analysis we show how human and non-human actors interact (and act on each other) in ways that assemble their networks towards a mode of visibility and perfection, or towards a mode of authenticity, intimacy, and imperfection. In the former mode, preachers and church practitioners find themselves competing in “a mimetic visibility contest” that is characterized by an ontology of numbers (likes, follower counts, retweets, etc.) and a subsequent ethos of quantification. In the latter mode, an ethos of care affords the opportunity for spiritual intimacy, even among “anonymous” online individuals. Drawing on Deanna A. Thompson’s and Amanda Lagerkvist’s work, we argue that the latter mode enacts “a cruciform media ethics” in which the embodied worshiping community interacting online can be understood as “the virtual body of the suffering Christ”. Here, digital media is enacting as “caring media” rather than “metric media”. While the paper introduces message-oriented, media-oriented, and ontology-oriented approaches as helpful for the study of digitally mediated preaching, it ultimately argues for the superior virtues of ANT as a non-dichotomous approach—overcoming both the message/media and the virtual/real divides which are often inherent to other approaches.

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Understanding the Paradox of (Im)Perfection: An Actor-Network Approach to Digitally Mediated Preaching

Mannerfelt

Kaufman

2023

Religions

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“…8 This is an important qualification of the very widespread notion that types or modes of music and their emotional effects are intrinsically and invariably linked, which can be found in traditions as diverse as Indian raga music (Jairazbhoy 1971), the Affektenlehre in European Baroque music (Großmann 2014: 192-4) and, in Islamic traditions, in al-Farabi's Great book of music (Shaw 2019: 44). 9 The recent rise of interest in phenomenological approaches to atmospheres also extends to atmospheres of the religious; see Gregersen (2021) and Radermacher (2021). 10 Deleuze distinguished between actual, individuated phenomena and the virtual forces of difference and multiplicity behind them that generate the actual.…”

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“…99The recent rise of interest in phenomenological approaches to atmospheres also extends to atmospheres of the religious; see Gregersen (2021) and Radermacher (2021). …”

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Atmospheric resonance: sonic motion and the question of religious mediation

Eisenlohr

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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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.

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An affective religious boundary tool

Gregersen

Afdal

2022

Poetics

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Exploring the Atmosphere Inside a Liturgical Laboratory

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Understanding the Paradox of (Im)Perfection: An Actor-Network Approach to Digitally Mediated Preaching

Understanding the Paradox of (Im)Perfection: An Actor-Network Approach to Digitally Mediated Preaching

Atmospheric resonance: sonic motion and the question of religious mediation

An affective religious boundary tool

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