Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms and Styles of Binding; B.Meyer PART I: BOUNDARY POLITICS 'Don't ask questions, just observe!': Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomble; M.van de Port Purity and the Devil: Community, Media and the Body: Pentecostal Adherents in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro; M.Oosterbaan 'More Sexpression Please!' Screening the Female Voice and Body in the Bangladesh Film Industry; L .Hoek PART II: RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC REALM Tamil Mythological Cinema and the Politics of Secular Modernism; S.Putnam Hughes Modern Religions, Modern Media: Islamic Renewal in Northern Nigeria; B.Larkin The Sonic Architects of a New Babel: The Politics of Belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke; F.Guadeloupe PART III: MEDIATING IMMEDIACY Breath, Technology and the Making-Of Community Cancao Nova in Brazil; M.J.de Abreu Modes of Binding, Moments of Bonding: Mediating Divine Touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Traditionalism; M.de Witte Prophecy on Stage: Fame and Celebrities in the Context of the Raelian Movement; C.Machado Seized by the Spirit: The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) Today; R.Sanchez