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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Heo, Angie

Titel

"Money and Chandeliers": Mass Circuits of Pilgrimage to Coptic Egypt

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2013-06, Vol.81 (2), p.516-528

Ort / Verlag

Cary, NC: American Academy of Religion, Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this review essay, I make the case that the mass medium of cinema introduces novel practices of holy pilgrimage which turn upon faculties of perception and place-making. In his reproduction of the shrine and relics of St. Marina the Martyr in old Cairo, film director Magued Tawfik creates the conditions of bodily movement and communion for Coptic Christians in Egypt and abroad. Thus, the viewers of his film participate in circuits of saintly obligation which render them up to radically divine possibilities for change.