More than a Provocation
Sexuality, Media and Theology
by Stefanie Knauss
Sex, Media and theology – a provocative mix. Reactions can vary from rejection to openness and curiosity. This volume follows the latter path: on the background of changes in contemporary sexual culture and theological developments in the reflection on sexuality, three media – internet, advertising and film – are analyzed with respect to their representation of sexuality and their contribution to theological reflections on sex. This shows: sex in media is more than a provocation; it provides an inspiration for theological thinking about human beings, their relationships with others, and also with God.
English summary: Sex, Media and theology – a provocative mix. Reactions can vary from rejection to openness and curiosity. This volume follows the latter path: on the background of changes in contemporary sexual culture and theological developments in the reflection on sexuality, three media – internet, advertising and film – are analysed with respect of their representation of sexuality and their contribution to theological reflections on sex. This shows: sex in media is more than a provocation; it provides an inspiration for theological thinking about human beings, their relationships with others, and also with God. German description: Sex, Medien und Theologie – eine provokante Mischung, auf die man mit Ablehnung oder Offenheit reagieren kann. Der vorliegende Band versucht das letztere: Auf dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen Veranderungen im Leben und Erleben von Sexualitat und der theologischen Entwicklungen in der Reflektion von Sexualitat werden beispielhaft drei Medien – Internet, Werbung und Film – in Bezug auf ihre Darstellung von Sexualitat und ihren Beitrag zu einer theologischen Reflektion von Sexualitat analysiert. Dabei zeigt sich: Sex in den Medien ist mehr als eine Provokation: es ist Anregung und Beitrag zum theologischen Nachdenken uber die Menschen, ihre Beziehungen und letztlich auch uber ihre Beziehung zu Gott.
- By (author) Stefanie Knauss
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A Portrait and Analysis of the Doctrine of Regeneration within Evangelical Protestantism
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Making Sadza With Deaf Zimbabwean Women
A Missiological Reorientation of Practical Theological Method
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Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age
Logstrup, Prenter, Wingren, and the Future of Scandinavian Creation Theology
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Religion
Immediate Experience and the Mediacy of Research: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Objectives, Concepts and Methodology of Empirical Research in Religion
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Governing Cemeteries
State Responses to the New Diversity in The Netherlands, Norway and France
Volume 30
The Spaces of Others – Heterotopic Spaces
Practicing and Theorizing Hospitality and Counter-Conduct beyond the Religion/Secular Border
Volume 21
Dance as Third Space
Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s)
Volume 32
Der Fremde in der europaischen Karikatur
Eine religionswissenschaftliche Studie uber das Spannungsfeld zwischen Belustigung, Beleidigung und Kritik
Volume 11
Calling Bodies in Lived Space
Spatial Explorations on the Concept of Calling in a Public Urban Space
Volume 27
Alltag mit kunstlichen Wesen
Theologische Implikationen eines Lebens mit subjektsimulierenden Maschinen am Beispiel des Unterhaltungsroboters Aibo
Volume 3
Stuck in the Margins?
Young people and faith-based organisations in South African and Nordic localities
Volume 31
Deconversion
Qualitative and Quantitative Results from Cross-Cultural Research in Germany and the United States of America
Volume 5
Secular and Sacred
The Scandinavian Case of Religion in Human Rights, Law and Public Space
Volume 15
Transfiguring Transcendence in Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and Left Behind
Fantasy Rhetorics and Contemporary Visions of Religious Identity
Volume 13
Raum und Geist
Zur Erdung und Beheimatung der Religion - eine theologische Asthetik des Raumes
Volume 7
The Kingdom of God and the Poor
The Bible Reading of the Economically Underprivileged Christians in Tanzania
Volume 36
Verortet: Kirche und Liturgie im Wandel
Eine empirisch-theologische Studie zur Liturgie als Formwandlerin der Kirche
Volume 29
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