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Mediality and Materiality in the History of Religions: A Medieval Case Study about Religion and Gender in In-Between Spaces
Beinhauer-Köhler, Bärbel (2015) , S. 65-71
The article discusses possible terminologies for labelling historical materials. Drawing on the history of the city of cairo around the 12th century – to the Fatimid era and to later Ayyubid times – it looks at the documents of three religions on religious infrastructure donated by women. This reveals women’s ability to shape the public sphere. At least to a certain extent, the segregation of the sexes and the concept of the harem are questionable. This topic requires the reconstruction and re-reading of fragmental materials. Methodological reflections are helpful for dealing with different sources, mostly combinations of texts and archaeology, embedded in the current debate about material culture and media as well as materialization and mediation. It might seem anachronistic, but to specify these categories it is useful to compare this example with a contemporary study by Mia Lövheim on female Internet bloggers. In both cases we find women as self-confident agents in public spaces.
(Re)Making a Difference: Religion, Mediatisation and Gender
Lövheim, Mia (2015) , S. 45-56
This article presents and discusses how mediatisation as a theory can be used to analyse two commercial videos, one promoting the organisation catholics come Home and the other coca cola. A core question in the current debate on mediatisation and religion concerns if and how mediatisation changes not only the social forms of communication about religion but also the meaning of religion in society. the issue in focus for the analy-sis is whether these videos mirror attributes and roles traditionally associated with men and women within religious institutions or offer an alternative to these. By using gender as a lens, we can see that mediatisation challenges religious institutions to adapt their narratives and symbols to commercial media culture, but that also within this new set-ting some traditional female gender norms seem to remain or even become reinforce.
Staging the Dead: The Material Body as a Medium for Gender and Religion
Höpflinger, Anna-Katharina (2015) , S. 57-64
The body is one of the basic media that form and communicate gender. How important gender is for the perception of an individual becomes especially clear by looking at the exhibition of a dead body. Having nothing left other than the body, the deceased are reduced to characteristics that seem to be the basis of a specific culture. However, in religious contexts the exhibition of mortal remains can also be used to overcome gender differentiations. In this article, I will focus on Central Europe, and argue that material presentations are an authoritative means of forming concepts of gender and religion.

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