Berryman2005a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Edward Berryman |
| Title | Taking Pictures of Jesus: Producing the Material Presence of a Divine Other |
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| Tag(s) | Accounting Activities, Apparition Photos, Divine Other, Ethnomethodology, Moral Transformation, Narrative, Religion |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Journal | Human Studies |
| Volume | 28 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 431–452 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 007/s10746-005-9000-7 |
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Abstract
A new form of visual representation of divine others is emerging: photography. I examine here a set of photos of deities related to an apparition claim. The goal I pursue is to analyze the self-constitutive features of these pictures – how they produce what they claim to be. I argue that the “presence' of the deities in the photos is achieved through “incarnation practices.' But these pictures are not just a factual representation of alleged mystical events. They constitute an update and a variation on the “Grand Christian Narrative' wherein the factual poses the moral problem of belief. In that sense, divine photography does not modify the epistemology of religious belief.
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