Repository | Journal | Volume | Articles
(2005) Human Studies 28 (4).
A new form of visual representation of divine others is emerging: photography. I examine here a set of photos of deities related to an apparition claim. The goal I pursue is to analyze the self-constitutive features of these pictures – how they produce what they claim to be. I argue that the "presence' of the deities in the photos is achieved through "incarnation practices.' But these pictures are not just a factual representation of alleged mystical events. They constitute an update and a variation on the "Grand Christian Narrative' wherein the factual poses the moral problem of belief. In that sense, divine photography does not modify the epistemology of religious belief.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/s10746-005-9000-7
Full citation:
Berryman, E. (2005). Taking pictures of Jesus: producing the material presence of a divine other. Human Studies 28 (4), pp. 431-.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.