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Approaching Religious Symbols in the Public Space |
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2015, 1/1, 95–101
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Approaching Religious Symbols
in the Public Space
Contemporary Art and Museums as Places of Negotiation?
aBsTraCT
This essay responds to sigrid schade’s contribution by outlining the multilayered
meaning-making processes deployed by the use of religious symbolism in visual cul-
ture. referring in a concise way to a selected example of contemporary art, it drafts
possible methodological approaches to a challenging field of research.
KeyWOrDs
religious symbols, public space, arts, museum, tradition, visual culture
BiOGraPhy
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati is a professor of the study of religion at the University of Zurich
and director of the interdisciplinary Centre for religion, economy and Politics (ZrWP).
in 1996, she received her PhD and in 2002, she completed her habilitation in the study
of religion at the University of Zürich. since 2004 she has held a swiss National sci-
ence foundation Professorship. in the same year, she founded the reseach group
‘Media and religion’ (www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/medien). her main teaching
and research interest focuses on theories and methods of the study of religion, space
and gender theories in the study of religion, the interaction between religion, visual
communication and media, the role of religion in the public space and religious tradi-
tions in the european history of religions and in the contemporary world. her latest
publications include Religion in Cultural Imaginary. Exploration in Visual and Material
Practices, 2015, and Religious Representation in Place. Exploring Meaningful Spaces at
the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences, 2014, coedited with Mark K. George.
Depending on the period and culture as well as on the socio-political context, the re-
lationship between visual representation and religion has been articulated in a broad
range of fashions. from the paradigm of art as a religious practice to a radical criti-
cism of religion by visual means (Vera frenkel’s This is your Messiah Speaking, dis-
JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Volume 01/01
- Title
- JRFM
- Subtitle
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Volume
- 01/01
- Authors
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Editor
- Uni-Graz
- University of Zurich
- Publisher
- Schüren Verlag GmbH
- Location
- Graz
- Date
- 2015
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Size
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Pages
- 108
- Categories
- Zeitschriften JRFM