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Using Media in Religious Studies | 13www.jrfm.eu 2017, 3/2, 9–15 ing contexts. although a foundational task, the teaching of students has to date garnered only limited systematic consideration. roth explores both the use of media within religions and the use of media with a class. He seeks a strict differ- entiation and deconstruction of media contexts, exploring, for example, ways to let students hear a recitation of the Qur’an and acknowledge its plural forms. in general, he pleads for media to be used, but with sensitive integration within a university setting. he presents examples of teaching situations, and of steps in the learning process. the emic and etic perspectives, along with the emo- tions a certain medium might evoke, are always part of his deliberations and part of his approach to our discipline. in Germany there is no institutionalized tradition of didactic training for scholars at universities, although over recent decades optional training has been available. Roth is highly qualified in this field and combines his knowledge of teaching with a theoretical instrumentarium for dealing with media and religion. in their article, entitled “SinnRäume – An Exhibition on Contemporary Reli- gion in Germany. exhibition Practice as a Medium in religious studies”, Celicia fitz and anna Matter write about the creation of an exhibition at the Museum of religions at the Philipps Univeristy of Marburg in 2015. the exhibition was an outcome of a student project which involved an empirical study of private homes as religious spaces. interviews, documentary photographs and religious objects were combined and displayed on movable modules that formed rooms, as in a house. Visitors of all ages can explore and experience this space in a sensory combination of moving, looking, touching and hearing, while inspired and guided by texts that shape their encounter with homes and religions. the authors explain the project’s outward appearance as a product of scholarly ap- proaches to research on lived religion. again, the insider and outsider perspec- tives are significant, in both distinguishing and combining the representation of the examples chosen. the result is an ongoing and thoughtfully designed exhibition that received an award from the University of Marburg. Larissa Carneiro focuses on an example that tackles the topic of this issue from the perspective of american evangelicalism. in “emulating science: the rhetorical figures of Creationism” she explores young-earth Creationists’ tech- niques for convincing people using media of natural science – in particular with charts and models displayed at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky – that are well known from darwin’s presentation of the theory of evolution. she deconstructs the visualization and modeling of scientific results, going back to the Rhetoric of aristotle. these tools are deployed at the Creation Museum to demonstrate to visitors – to “persuade” them – that the earth was created by God in six days and that darwin’s species development is baseless. the staging of the Creationists’ explanation draws from a common well of mediatic forms in natural science. Carneiro also interprets this installation in terms of the spatial