Hi everyone,

I am still new to this format, so I am little unsure how to share work. But for those of you who are interested in atmosphere, I have a new paper published in Poetics. It is called “An Affective Religious Boundary Tool” (2022), and it examines the strategic role of an atmosphere as a type of boundary object in a Copenhagen Night Chu…[Read more]

Dear Gerrit,

Thank you also for engaging me in this discussion. I hope to have the opportunity to discuss atmospheres and aesthetics of religion with you and the other scholars working within this frame.

I wish you all the best with your work.

Best regards,
Andreas

Dear Andreas,

I find your questions provocative in the best sense, in that they force me to make clear what I did during the last years. To be honest, I have no final answer yet to either of Your questions – but these answers are exactly what I need to finish my thesis. Understanding emotions as practices comes very close to what I am doing. To…[Read more]

Dear Gerrit,  Thank you for your reply. Your movies sound very interesting. I am not quite sure, I followed everything you noted. I suspect this is a result of a lack of understanding on my behalf. As a notorious vague term, however, it is certainly difficult to explicate in precise terms what we mean by atmospheres. Perhaps, it is even…[Read more]

Dear Alexandra and Andreas,

thank you for keeping this going!

Unfortunately, I have nothing so far published on atmospheres. I spent the last years making a kind of ethnographic movie series to “capture” something like moods or atmospheres and the strategies of their creation, but I have so far shied away from writing about my movie and its…[Read more]

Dear Alexandra (and all others interested),

Thank your insightful and thorough input. You raise several important points. To keep the discussion going let me rehearse my stated desire to inquiry into the present state of research within the broader framework of Aesthetics of Religion (that is, including studies on material religion and religion…[Read more]

Dear all, dear Andreas,

many thanks for this interesting and stimulating discussion, it is exactly what we initially hope for that it would happen on this platform.

Also thnks for focussing the discussion on two questions:

1) Was this a symptom of a desire to move pass phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. OR,2) Was it because atmosphere…[Read more]

Dear Gerrit,

Thank you very much for taking the time and replying in such a thoughtful and informative manner. This was very helpful!

While I have read Aesthetics of Religion: A Connective Concept carefully, I am still in the process of reading through the Bloomsbury Handbook. From your response, I can understand I have much to look forward to…[Read more]

Dear Andreas (if I may),

In my PhD dissertation I aim to capture the “atmospheres” which are “evoked” in the worship of a Central Himalayan Hindu Goddess by means of writing and filming, especially with an AoR framework. I know the articles by Martin Rademacher and think that he is methodologically quite close to the AoR (or AestoR) approach,…[Read more]

Liebe Alexandra, Danke Dir! Ja, pointiert und präzise hast Du das auf den Punkt gebracht. Die Aktionsform des zivilen Ungehorsams hatte ich im zweiten Interviewteil, der geschnitten werden musste, reingebracht. Es ist wirklich schön, das in Deiner Antwort so elegant ausformuliert zu sehen. Ich finde es erst mal begrüßenswert, wenn sich jemand für…[Read more]