Images provoke! This volume explores the role of images in contemporary Islam by turning to the act of provocation. Moving beyond a common focus within the study of religious visuality on art, aesthetic value, and perceptions of beauty or coherence, it shows how, when, and why images dare, shock, terrorize, confront, challenge, mock, shame, taunt, and offend, either intentionally or unintentionally, and as such lead to both confrontation and affective religious engagement. Exploring and experimenting with the relationship between text and image, the chapters draw attention simultaneously to the messiness of everyday life and to highly targeted, disruptive interventions that mark religious contestation in an era of escalating mobility and digital multiplicity. Ranging broadly from visual jihad to nudity, from public scandal to ‘multicultural clumsiness’, they ultimately converge to illuminate a phenomenon that has received little attention so far: intense provocation as being among religion’s most significant mediations.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
- Leonie Schmidt and Mark R. Westmoreland
- Chapter 2. Provoking Affect: Islamic State’s Projectilic Images
- Chapter 3. Angry Muslim Mobs on Dutch Television: The Reappropriation of the Rushdie Affair
- Chapter 4. Multicultural Clumsiness: Provocative Anti-Provocations in the Aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks
- Chapter 5. Islamoscaping Medina by the Bay: The Background of Muslim Life in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Chapter 6. Pictures That Divide: Worldly Justice, Erotic Nationalism, and the Globalization of the Kiss
- Chapter 7. Over the Shoulder: Looking at Islamic Visuality, Projected Scandals, and Muslim Visibility
- Chapter 8. Making an Appearance: Images, Frailty, and the Potency of Beauty in the Indonesian Modest Fashion Scene
- Chapter 9. Television is Not Radio: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival
- Chapter 10. Haunting the Islamists: Visualizing Piety, Satire, and Shame in Contemporary Indonesia
- Chapter 11. Epilogue: What do Provocative Images Provoke?
- Illustration Sources and Credits
- About the Authors
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