عنوان

Revealing Christ's Presence in Jesus Films and Dreams:

شماره

LA110784

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Revealing Christ's Presence in Jesus Films and Dreams:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Towards Ontonic Semiotics of Non-representation

نام نخستين پديدآور

Johannes Merz

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Jesus films remain popular in missionary work, yet little is known about how they communicate. Working with viewers in Benin, West Africa, I observed that they watch films as an embodied practice that goes beyond the explanatory power of meaning-based communication models. For them, the filmic portrayal of Jesus is not an image or representation; it rather reveals Christ's presence in a veracious and immediate way. Consequently, people experience the actor as if he were Jesus, who sometimes interacts with them in dreams. I argue that current anthropological theories are inadequate when trying to account for this. By shifting the focus from meaning to presence, and by introducing the notion of the 'onton,' I propose the novel approach of 'ontonic semiotics' that accounts for how people make sense of, and interact with, the world. This approach highlights the need to give more attention to how Jesus appears to global audiences. Jesus films remain popular in missionary work, yet little is known about how they communicate. Working with viewers in Benin, West Africa, I observed that they watch films as an embodied practice that goes beyond the explanatory power of meaning-based communication models. For them, the filmic portrayal of Jesus is not an image or representation; it rather reveals Christ's presence in a veracious and immediate way. Consequently, people experience the actor as if he were Jesus, who sometimes interacts with them in dreams. I argue that current anthropological theories are inadequate when trying to account for this. By shifting the focus from meaning to presence, and by introducing the notion of the 'onton,' I propose the novel approach of 'ontonic semiotics' that accounts for how people make sense of, and interact with, the world. This approach highlights the need to give more attention to how Jesus appears to global audiences.

تاريخ نشر

2021

توصيف ظاهري

5-29

عنوان

Exchange

شماره جلد

50/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1572-543X

اصطلاح موضوعی

dreams

اصطلاح موضوعی

Jesus films

اصطلاح موضوعی

media technology

اصطلاح موضوعی

ontology

اصطلاح موضوعی

phenomenology

اصطلاح موضوعی

photo

اصطلاح موضوعی

semiotics

اصطلاح موضوعی

vision

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Johannes Merz

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/1572543X-12341583

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y