Religion and Media Book

	Contributors
Pt. I	Introducing the Concepts
	In Media Res: Global Religion, Public Spheres, and the Task of Contemporary Comparative Religious Studies	3
	Religion, Repetition, Media	43
	"Above All, No Journalists!"	56
	Theory on TV: "After-Thoughts"	94
	The Deconstruction of Christianity	112
	Reading a Modern Classic: W. C. Smith's The Meaning and End of Religion	131
Pt. II	Seeing and Believing: Historical and Philosophical Considerations
	Mimesis and the Ban on Graven Images	151
	In the Workshop of Equivalences: Translation, Institutions, and Media in the Jesuit Re-Formation of China	163
	Images of Iron: Ignatius of Loyola and Joyce	182
	Luther with McLuhan	198
	Tele-vision: Between Blind Trust and Perceptual Faith	216
	"The Catholicism of Cinema": Gilles Deleuze on Image and Belief	227
	Mission Impossible: Postcards, Pictures, and Parasites	241
Pt. III	Local Rites, Global Media: Critical and Anthropological Approaches
	Kiblat and the Mediatic Jew	271
	The Cassowary Will (Not) Be Photographed: The "Primitive," the "Japanese," and the Elusive "Sacred" (Aru, Southeast Moluccas)	304
	A Remaking of Hinduism?: or, Taking the Mickey Out of Valmiki	320
	Mirror Image: Layered Narratives in Photographic and Televised Mediations of Ise's Shikinen Sengu	339
	Reconciliation Without Justice	376
	Channel-Surfing: Media, Mediumship, and State Authority in the Maria Lionza Possession Cult (Venezuela)	388
	Production of Fundamentalism: On the Dynamics of Producing the Radically Different	435
	Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and Religion in Iranian Cinema	456
	The Aboriginal Medium: Negotiating the Caesura of Exchange	487
	Before the Law: Reading the Yuendumu Doors with Eric Michaels	514
Pt. IV	Two Documents
	The Religious Medium	531
	Morality and the Secrets of Religion	555
	Notes	569