Chapter 1 Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms, and Styles of Binding

Chapter 2 “Don’t Ask Questions, Just Observe!” Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomblé

Chapter 3 Purity and the Devil: Community, Media, and the Body. Pentecostal Adherents in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro

Chapter 4 “More Sexpression Please!” Screening the Female Voice and Body in the Bangladesh Film Industry

Chapter 5 Tamil Mythological Cinema and the Politics of Secular Modernism

Chapter 6 Islamic Renewal, Radio, and the Surface of Things

Chapter 7 The Sonic Architects of a New Babel: The Politics of Belonging of DJ Shadow and Fernando Clarke

Chapter 8 Breath, Technology, and the Making of Community Cançáo Nova in Brazil

Chapter 9 Modes of Binding, Moments of Bonding. Mediating Divine Touch in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Traditionalism

Chapter 11 Seized by the Spirit. The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) Today