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The Crystal Cathedral: Architecture for Mediated Congregation
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 577–599.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Erica Robles-Anderson Within the past half century a style of worship known as “megachurch” has radically transformed the religious landscape. Characterized by spectacular largesse, megachurches reimagine the material culture of Christianity by blending audio, visual, and communications...
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Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 477–498.
Published: 01 May 2000
... into
the grave after its dead masters and was buried alive. Seventeen corpses and one
suicidal dog: the Eighteen Lords.
For years soldiers on coastal sentry duty would on occasion worship at the
shrine, but not many others. When construction...
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Editor's Note
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): vii–viii.
Published: 01 May 2004
... global cul-
tures of governmentality. The very term genuflect—literally, to bend the knee—
carries a particular history of worship. After all, the knee bent, as well as the hat
doffed, was one of the key corporeal sites in which struggles over the disciplinary
power of the Roman Catholic Church were...
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Sangam: Signs of India
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 195–198.
Published: 01 January 1993
... are justified in
linking stardom in India
to divinity (and to
reciprocity in worship-
puja) then we can take
one more step and notice
that the heart of worship
in Hindu India is
darsan- the mutually
benificent gaze of
worshipper and divinity,
the visual force that links...
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In Memoriam: Carol A. Breckenridge September 6, 1942–October 4, 2009
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and was intimately linked
to the growth of the kingdom of both the Madurai Pandya and Nayaka kings. Her
1976 PhD dissertation is a subtle study of the dialectics of worship and endow-
ments in South India during the period 1833–1925.4 The analytical...
Journal Article
Millennial Transitions
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 344–350.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Irene Stengs; Hylton White; Caitrin Lynch; Jeffrey A. Zimmermann 2000 Irene Stengs is a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, working on a dissertation entitled “Worshipping the Great Modernizer: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class...
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Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 January 1997
... or for
cultivation would be used for common group activities like children’s games, as
sites of a puja (worship) or a seasonal fair. But these would not be designated
spaces, and they lacked the typical historical marks of modern administration of
space...
Journal Article
Critique of Popular Culture
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 321–344.
Published: 01 May 2008
...
popular festival in the city of Calcutta, where I have lived from my birth. It is the
annual Durga Puja, which is held in autumn on the occasion of the ritual worship
of the goddess Durga (I use the word “worship” for puja, ignoring the difficulties...
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Trooping the Colors on TV
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 155–158.
Published: 01 May 1991
... this is because the official tolerance of all reli-
gions in America renders none of them true. In order to protect the power of
our civil religion, flag worship is forbidden to speak its name.
Visually focused and dependably repetitive, television is certainly its
ideal medium. Since the war’s...
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The Curry Eastern Takeaway
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 121–128.
Published: 01 May 1990
... left, the heroine sheds her docility. She takes
on the characteristics of the goddess-as-destroyer. Kali and Durga are the
two goddesses who are worshipped in India for their strength. In fact, Kali,
who is the more fearsome of the two, has been grafted onto the Curry
Eastern: The Deceivers...
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Editor's Note
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): vii.
Published: 01 May 2003
...cations. It is our hope that the discursive cacophony that
results will speak as powerfully to the force and fate of this event and situate it,
without ignoring or worshiping it.
—Elizabeth A. Povinelli...
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God's Phallus
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 475–498.
Published: 01 September 1999
... by
the suppression of all other forms of worship. The practice of monotheism is there-
fore incompatible with any kind of commerce with other divinities. This radicality
is what gives the single god part of his jealous, possessive, wrathful, violent...
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Religious Minorities and the Secular State: Reflections on an Indian Impasse
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 11–39.
Published: 01 January 1995
... outlawed the institution of dedicating young girls to temple deities and
prohibited “dancing by a woman . . . in the precincts of any temple or other
religious institution, or in any procession of a Hindu deity, idol or object of
worship Equally important was the Madras Temple Entry...
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Satanic or Angelic? The Politics of Religious and Literary Inspiration
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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 100–105.
Published: 01 January 1989
..., the ambiguity of the revelation is shown (and as a real trickster
Rushdie makes use of authentic Islamic tradition to do so). Mahound lives
in a town in which three goddesses are worshipped (among them Al-Lat),
while he propagates one male god, Al-Lah. The leaders of the town offer a
compromise...
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Artworks
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 201–210.
Published: 01 January 1997
... trade ended in 1840.”
Many other on-site commentaries are equally pointed, though even-handed.
In one room, a succession of video clips depicts worshipers of almost utopian
equanimity—“Other creeds have gods, and I’m quite sure theirs...
Journal Article
Contributors
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): v–viii.
Published: 01 September 2012
... is
currently completing a book about the twentieth-century transfor-
mation of Protestant worship space into a highly mediated, spec-
tacular “megachurch.” She trained as both an experimental psy-
chologist and cultural historian and holds a PhD in communication
from Stanford University.
Lynn Spigel...
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Caution, Religion! Iconoclasm, Secularism, and Ways of Seeing in Post-Soviet Art Wars
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 419–448.
Published: 01 September 2014
... quoted above, who argue that icons are equally misunderstood by those who want to desecrate them and by those who want to worship them as works of art ( Maler 2012 ). 21 Interestingly, to make this point, Maler invokes the notion of the “reverse perspective” elaborated by Soviet semioticians, who were...
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History as a Sign of the Modern
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 25–32.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Nicholas B. Dirks Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References Appadurai , Arjun 1981 . Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Cave . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Walter , Benjamin 1968 . “Theses on the Philosophy of History...
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Goddess across the Taiwan Strait: Matrifocal Ritual Space, Nation-State,and Satellite Television Footprints
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 209–238.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., Taiwan, to Meizhou Island, Fujian Province, July 2000
210
religious pilgrimage.1 In contemporary Taiwan, Mazu is the most popular cult Goddess across the
deity: her temples are the most numerous, and it is estimated that 70 to 80 percent Taiwan Strait
of Taiwanese worship her...
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Epic and State: Contesting Interpretations of the Ramayana
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 631–654.
Published: 01 September 1995
... is where
the God Rama was born on earth. At the same site Muslims had been worshipping
at the Babri Masjid, a mosque widely believed to have been built during the
reign of the Mughal Emperor Babur (1526-1530). The Ramayana, one of the
two preeminent epics of Hindu tradition, tells...
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