Publications
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Act Three. Heavy Metal Bricolage. Religious Imagery and “Religionized” Visual Language in Music Videos
(2020)
Popular music’s use of visual media makes its listeners also its viewers. From concert posters, tickets stubs and stage design to music videos, CD covers and clothes, material visual products are utilized by bands and fans ...
Act One. Comfort the Waste Places, Defend the Violated Earth. An Ecofeminist Reading of Isaiah 51:1-52:6 and Tracy Chapman's "The Rape of the World".
(2020)
This paper compares the personification of Zion in Isaiah 51:1–52:6 as a mother and daughter with Tracy Chapman's 1995 song "The rape of the world" where the earth is portrayed as mother. I will explore the use of rape ...
Editorial: Apocalyptic Imaginings
(2019)
This editorial shows the impact of apocalyptic images and topoi referring to the ongoing Brexit-process in the United Kingdom and, thereby the editorial builds a bridge to the articels of this issue that analyse how diverse ...
Editorial: In Search of the Human. The Work of the Dardenne Brothers
(2016)
Editorial to Issue 2016, 2/2
Film, Parable, Reciprocity: Frederick Wiseman's "reality fictions" and Social Change
(2016)
This essay argues that social criticism may be an effect of Frederick Wiseman's "reality fiction" films only if that effect is understood as analogous to parable, that is, through an awakened responsiveness to the unknown ...
Mediality and Materiality in the History of Religions
(2015)
The article discusses possible terminologies for labelling historical materials. Drawing on the history of the city of Cairo around the 12th century – to the Fatimid era and to later Ayyubid times – it looks at the documents ...