Alvin Eng Hui Lim

Digital Spirits in Religion and Media (eBook, PDF)

Possession and Performance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In many contemporary and popular forms of religious practice, digital technology and the spiritual are inseparable. By offering the notion of 'digital spirits', this book critically attends to the intersections of digital media and spiritual beings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351188869
• Artikelnr.: 54084968

Autorenporträt

Alvin Eng Hui Lim is currently Assistant Professor with the Theatre Studies programme at the National University of Singapore. He is also Deputy Director and Technology and Online Editor (Mandarin) of the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A S I A,); and Editor of Theatre Makers Asia archive. He has published on Singapore theatre, religious practices, and digital archiving. He is also a member of the "After Performance" working group, which explores experimental modes of writing on performance and co-authorship.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Digital Spirits in Religion and Media 2 Medium's Medium: Table Talks of a
Medium to a Spirit Medium 3 Corporeal Gods: Performing Excess, Country and
Corporeality in a Pharmaceutical Theatre 4 Cybernetic Deities: The Taoist
Technology of the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Singapore 5 Digital
Spirits-An Interpretation of Spirit Possession: A Case Study on Ku Witaya
and Sia Chan Hong 6 Christian Interfaces: Protestant Technology and
Pastoral Media 7 #ECCESS: Access Through Excess