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123 JRFM 2019, 5/1 CALL FOR PAPERS Understanding Jesus in the Early Modern Period and Beyond Between Text and Other Media In the last decades a growing interest in theories and notions of religion in the early modern period has developed, and contemporary scholarship is paying increasing attention to representations of early Christianity and Jesus before the rise of ‘scientific discourse’. The Protestant Reformation, Bildersturm, geo- graphical explorations and missionary policies contributed to the deepening of religious strife. Interest in religion widened. Committed philologists and sophis- ticated apologists from different religious communities engaged in defining a wealth of issues: religion in general, the biography of Jesus, the rise of early Christianity and religious iconographies. The issue of JRFM 2019 5/1 is devoted to the representation of Jesus, to dif- ferent contexts of production and reception. Our interest lies especially in Jewish, Protestant and Catholic traditions, extending the focus to overlooked media. While we welcome analysis on textual traditions as they are embedded in prints, manuscripts, and marginalia, alongside with authorized and authorial perspectives, we encourage scholars to present counter-narratives and chal- lenging views, focusing on other forms and fields of representation. We are inviting articles considering and analyzing visual material, archival sources and fictional literature, in order to establish a more precise picture of both multiple representations and contrasting theories of religion. While the main focus of the issue is on historical studies, articles with a diachronic line of argument or concerned with a contemporary field of research are also wel- come. Indeed, we invite scholars to think about what happens when a new me- dium appears, as in the case of cinema or photography. How does this new form of communication interact with traditional ones, and more broadly, how are religious experiences or historical facts narrated, represented, or performed? Especially with regard to the performative dimension of the narrative, new me-