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 10 Prophecy on Stage: Fame and Celebrities in the Context of the Raelian Movement