Reframing Authority

The Role of Media and Materiality

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvLaura Feldt,Christian Høgel,Laura Feldt,Christian Hogel

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Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an elusive quality. Reframing Authority provides new perspectives by focusing on the role of materiality and media for questions of authority, as well as on the changing roles of authority historically and cross-culturally. The volume argues that forms of mediation and materiality are crucial in any constitution, contestation, or transformation of authority. New understanding of authority can be gained by focusing on materiality and media in situations where authority is created, contested, or transformed in different historical eras and cultures. As the in-depth historical case studies show, authority is dependent upon a range of media and materiality forms - objects, paraphernalia, spaces and spatial practices, visual culture, literary forms, technologies, and bodies. Thus, authority is vulnerable and in need of continual maintenance, as struggles against, negotiations of, and transformations within authority constellations demonstrate. Reframing Authority demonstrates the fundamental relational nature of authority, makes a contribution to broader debates in the human sciences and offers a long historical perspective, ranging from ancient Rome and Christianity, to medieval literature, the early modern, modern, and contemporary eras in Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe, Mexico and the US.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-10-01
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt530 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagEquinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781781796795

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Laura Feldt Associate Professor; Head of the research programme Authority, materiality and media; Member of the Department Council of the Department of History, Secretary of the Danish Association for the Study of Religions, Managing editor (with G.D. Alles), Numen - International Review of the History of Religions. Christian Hogel Professor and Co-director of Centre for Medieval Literature, Department of History, University of Southern Denmark

1. Reframing Authority - The Role of Media and MaterialityLaura Feldt and Christian Hogel Section 1: Authority, Materiality and Premodern Literary Media2. Authority, Space, and Literary Media - Eucherius' Epistula de laude eremi and authority changes in late antique GaulLaura Feldt3. The Authority of Translators. Vendors, Manufacturers, and Materiality in the Transfer of Barlaam and Josaphat along the Silk RoadChristian Hogel4. The Material and the Implied Library. Book Collections, Media History, and Authority in 12th Century Papal EuropeLars Boje Mortensen, University of Southern DenmarkSection 2: Claiming Authority through Forms of Materiality - Ancient and Modern5. Claiming Authority in the Sphere of Roman `Deathscapes': Tomb 100 in the Isola Sacra Necropolis Jane Hjarl Petersen, University of Southern Denmark6. The Resurrection of the Body. Authoritative Creed, Materiality, and Changes in Popular Belief in Denmark in the 18th and 19th Centuries Martin Rheinheimer, University of Southern Denmark7. Myth, Materiality, and Book of Mormon Apologetics: A Sacred Text and its InterpretersOlav Hammer, University of Southern DenmarkSection 3: Authority, Media and Modern Identity Politics8. Between Progress and the Frontier. Authority and Mob Violence in The Gonzales Inquirer at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Anne Magnussen, University of Southern Denmark9. Resisting the Silence: The Emergence of the Danish Jewish Congregational Magazine and its Reorientation of Communal AuthorityMaja Gildin Zuckerman, Stanford University10. The Multiple Faces of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: Authority, Iconography, and Subjectivity in Modern TurkeyDietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark11. A Tradition in Need of How-To Books: The Revitalization of Traditional Rituals and Lifestyle among Smarta Brahmins of South IndiaMikael Aktor, University of Southern Denmark