Mediums, Media, and Mediators in Global Catholicism

AAR 2022

What does it mean to think about Catholicism as global? How does the global take shape? This session will create a conversation about these questions through four case studies. Thinking about film, popular devotions, social media, and cartography, our presenters crack open the idea of the Catholic global through analysis of processes of its modern and contemporary mediation.

Sunday, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (In Person)

Hyatt Regency-Granite B (Third Level)




Panelists and Linked Abstracts

Fabrizio Cilento, Messiah University

Cinema Has Not Yet Been Invented: André Bazin’s Ontology of Moving Images



Michael Rogers, University of Toronto

Devotion as Transgressive Lament: Santa Muerte and the Globalization of Heterodoxy.



Gary Slater, University of Münster

The Cartographic Catholic: Mapping Prejudice and Praxis Within a Contested Global Space



Lauren Horn Griffin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Mediating Catholicism in a Digital World: Internet Cultures Beyond the National/Global Binary



Presiding

Kristin Bloomer, Carleton College, Presiding