BIRGIT MEYER is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Translating the Devil. Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana, and co-editor of Globalization and Identity (with Peter Geschiere), Magic and Modernity (with Peter Pels) and Religion, Media and the Public Sphere (with Annelies Moors). She is also co-editor of the journal Material Religion.

Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms and Styles of Binding; B.Meyer  PART I: BOUNDARY POLITICS 'Don't ask questions, just observe!': Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomblé; M.van de Port   Purity and the Devil: Community, Media and the Body: Pentecostal Adherents in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro; M.Oosterbaan   'More Sexpression Please!' Screening the Female Voice and Body in the Bangladesh Film Industry; L .Hoek PART II: RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC REALM Tamil Mythological Cinema and the Politics of Secular Modernism; S.Putnam Hughes   Modern Religions, Modern Media: Islamic Renewal in Northern Nigeria; B.Larkin  The Sonic Architects of a New Babel: The Politics of Belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke; F.Guadeloupe  PART III: MEDIATING IMMEDIACY  Breath, Technology and the Making-Of Community Canção Nova in Brazil; M.J.de Abreu   Modes of Binding, Moments of Bonding: Mediating Divine Touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Traditionalism; M.de Witte   Prophecy on Stage: Fame and Celebrities in the Context of the Raelian Movement; C.Machado Seized by the Spirit: The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) Today; R.Sanchez

This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema.