Wouter Hanegraaff has proposed that we rethink the study of religion as the study of “imaginative formations.” Much of my research has focused on something like that, or at least on the creative role of imagination in mediating the ways people come to live in the world, shape that world, and contest it among each […]
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Reimagining religious imagination
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged cognitive theory, image, imaginal, imagination, Jeffrey Kripal, philosophy of imagination, philosophy of religion, religion, religious imagination, T. M. Luhrmann, visual culture, visual theory, Wouter Hanegraaff on December 14, 2021 | 5 Comments »
Image ecologies, spiritual polytropy, and the Anthropocene
Posted in Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged Anthropocene, ecocriticism, Edward Burtynsky, film-philosophy, iconology, image ecologies, image ecology, image ontology, image regimes, media ecology, philosophy of religion, polytropism, process-relational ontology, religious studies, sociology of religion, spiritual polytropy, spirituality, The Anthropocene Project, three ecologies, visual studies on April 29, 2020 | 2 Comments »
An article of mine by that title has appeared in a special issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture on “Popular Culture, Religion, and the Anthropocene.” The article contains the theoretical core of the book I’m currently writing on image regimes. It builds on my work in cinema and media […]
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