Mediums, Media, and Mediators in Global Catholicism
AAR 2022
What does it mean to think about Catholicism as global? How does the global take shape? This session will create a conversation about these questions through four case studies. Thinking about film, popular devotions, social media, and cartography, our presenters crack open the idea of the Catholic global through analysis of processes of its modern and contemporary mediation.
Sunday, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (In Person)
Hyatt Regency-Granite B (Third Level)
Panelists and Linked Abstracts
Fabrizio Cilento, Messiah University
Cinema Has Not Yet Been Invented: André Bazin’s Ontology of Moving Images
Michael Rogers, University of Toronto
Devotion as Transgressive Lament: Santa Muerte and the Globalization of Heterodoxy.
Gary Slater, University of Münster
The Cartographic Catholic: Mapping Prejudice and Praxis Within a Contested Global Space
Lauren Horn Griffin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Mediating Catholicism in a Digital World: Internet Cultures Beyond the National/Global Binary
Presiding
Kristin Bloomer, Carleton College, Presiding