In May 2022, the editors of this special issue held a workshop at the University of Erfurt on aesthetics and affects of power in the context of religion. The idea was to create a forum for exchange on how to approach social-cultural-religious power dynamics in their embodied and material dimensions, and how to explore how religion participates in the formation of subjects through aesthetics and affects. This special issue continues the discussion. The editorial contextualizes the special issue’s theme within various academic discourses. It shortly introduces the key concepts “power” and “aesthetics and affects” as well as the different contributions
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Implicit Religion
by Carmen Becker, Leibniz University (Co-Editor)David G. Robertson, The Open University (Co-Editor)
This international journal offers a platform for scholarship that challenges the traditional boundary between religion and non-religion and the tacit assumptions underlying this distinction. It invites contributions from a critical perspective on various cultural formations that are usually excluded from religion by the gatekeeping practices of the general public, practitioners, the law, and even some scholars of religion. Taking a broad scope, Implicit Religion showcases analyses of material from the mundane to the extraordinary, but always with critical questions in mind such as: why is this data boundary-challenging? what do such marginal cases tell us about boundary management and category formation with respect to religion? and what interests are being served through acts of inclusion and exclusion?
Founded by Edward Bailey† in 1998 , Implicit Religion has, from 2016, been published in collaboration with the Religious Studies Project and Subscribers to the RSP receive a discount on subscriptions.
Publication Details & Frequency
Quarterly from 2011
ISSN 1463-9955 (print)
ISSN 1743-1697 (online)
Religion Library Collections
Theory, Method & Special Topics (Core Journal)
Selected articles are included in other collections as designated below:
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Latest Issue
Vol. 26 No. 1: Special Issue: Aesthetics and Affects of Power in the Context of Religion
Guest editor: Lina Aschenbrenner
Introduction to Special Issue: Aesthetics and Affects of Power in the Context of Religion
Lina Aschenbrenner, Katharina Waldner, 213–224
Girls’ Schools in Sri Lanka: Affect and Intersectionality in Religious and Gendered Identities
Jessica Annette Albrecht, 225–244
Performing National Emotions
Aesthetic Dimensions of the “Torch Lighting Ceremony” for Israel’s 70th Independence Day
Hannah Griese, 245–264
Touch and Distance as Aesthetic of Social Interaction: Politics of Class Distinction in Spiritual Face-to-Face Situations in Beirut
Maike Neufend, 265–287
Studying the Materialization of Power in the Body:
The Aesthetics of Neo-Spirituality
Lina Aschenbrenner, 289–314
A Conversation on Aesthetics and Affects of Power
Lina Aschenbrenner, Gerrit Lange, Micaela Terk, 315–329
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