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Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction
- Author(s):
- Patrick Eisenlohr (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Anthropology, Music and Sound, Religious Studies
- Subject(s):
- Religion, Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques, Anthropological linguistics, Ritual--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- language and religion, ritual language, religious language, transduction, sound reproduction, Religious studies, Sound recording technologies, Linguistic anthropology, Ritual studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/6h4f-jk97
- Abstract:
- In this chapter I discuss how contests about religious language have revolved around a contrast between, on the one hand, a preference for literalism, with its emphasis on reference and denotation; and on the other hand, a valuation of the poetic functions of language and its material properties. Turning to the issue of electronically mediated language in religious settings, I discuss how sound reproduction technology has become part of religious practices, drawing on my research on language and media among Mauritian Muslims. I analyze how electronic mediation of voice is intended to bring members of this community closer to the divine; and I show how the material dimensions of language, which I seek to capture under the logic of transduction, sustain religious interaction.
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- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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