Introduction: From imagined communities to aesthetic formations : religious mediations, sensational forms, and styles of binding / Birgit Meyer -- Boundary politics -- "Don't ask questions, just observe!" : boundary politics in Bahian Candomblae / Mattijs van de Port -- Purity and the devil : community, media, and the body. Pentecostal adherents in a favela in Rio de Janeiro / Martijn Oosterbaan -- "More sexpression please!" : screening the female voice and body in the Bangladesh film industry / Lotte Hoek -- Religion in the public realm -- Tamil mythological cinema and the politics of secular modernism / Stephen Putnam Hughes -- Islamic renewal, radio, and the surface of things / Brian Larkin -- The sonic architects of a new babel : the politics of belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke / Francio Guadeloupe -- Mediating immediacy -- Breath, technology, and the making of community Cancoao Nova in Brazil / Maria Josae A. de Abreu -- Modes of binding, moments of bonding. Mediating divine touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and traditionalism / Marleen de Witte -- Prophecy on stage : fame and celebrities in the context of the Raelian Movement / Carly Machado -- Seized by the spirit : the mystical foundation of squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas )Venezuela( today / Rafael Saanchez.
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