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- Title
Der GEBETOMAT: Die Idee von der Erzeugung religiösen Gefühls auf Geldeinwurf.
- Authors
Eißner, Jakob
- Abstract
The PRAY-O-MAT is a 2008 art project by Oliver Sturm that, visually, resembles a photo booth and that can play over 300 prayers in more than 60 languages. With this, Sturm aims to illustrate the »automatic production of religious feeling«. Despite its widespread reception in the feuilleton and tabloid press, the academic study of religion has not yet taken an interest in the machine. Yet an examination of it would offer fruitful reflections on religion and art in the 21st century, specifically on the medialization of religion and its cultural situatedness. This project will present the PRAY-O-MAT as an object of material religion, described from different heuristic perspectives, and critically examined especially in its claim to »interreligious neutrality«.
- Subjects
21ST century art; AUTOMATION; TABLOID newspapers; NEUTRALITY; PRAYER; RELIGIONS
- Publication
ZjR: Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft, 2022, Vol 17, p1
- ISSN
1862-5886
- Publication type
Article