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Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an elusive quality. Reframing Authority provides new perspectives by focusing on the role of materiality and media for questions of authority, as well as on the changing roles of authority historically and cross-culturally. The volume argues that forms of mediation and materiality are crucial in any constitution, contestation, or transformation of authority. New understanding of authority can be gained by focusing on materiality and media in situations where authority is created, contested, or transformed in different historical eras and cultures. As the in-depth historical case studies show, authority is dependent upon a range of media and materiality forms - objects, paraphernalia, spaces and spatial practices, visual culture, literary forms, technologies, and bodies. Thus, authority is vulnerable and in need of continual maintenance, as struggles against, negotiations of, and transformations within authority constellations demonstrate. Reframing Authority demonstrates the fundamental relational nature of authority, makes a contribution to broader debates in the human sciences and offers a long historical perspective, ranging from ancient Rome and Christianity, to medieval literature, the early modern, modern, and contemporary eras in Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe, Mexico and the US.
Contents
1. Reframing Authority - The Role of Media and Materiality
Laura Feldt and Christian Hogel
Section 1: Authority, Materiality and Premodern Literary Media
2. Authority, Space, and Literary Media - Eucherius' Epistula de laude eremi and authority changes in late antique Gaul
Laura Feldt
3. The Authority of Translators. Vendors, Manufacturers, and Materiality in the Transfer of Barlaam and Josaphat along the Silk Road
Christian Hogel
4. The Material and the Implied Library. Book Collections, Media History, and Authority in 12th Century Papal Europe
Lars Boje Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark
Section 2: Claiming Authority through Forms of Materiality - Ancient and Modern
5. Claiming Authority in the Sphere of Roman `Deathscapes': Tomb 100 in the Isola Sacra Necropolis
Jane Hjarl Petersen, University of Southern Denmark
6. The Resurrection of the Body. Authoritative Creed, Materiality, and Changes in Popular Belief in Denmark in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Martin Rheinheimer, University of Southern Denmark
7. Myth, Materiality, and Book of Mormon Apologetics: A Sacred Text and its Interpreters
Olav Hammer, University of Southern Denmark
Section 3: Authority, Media and Modern Identity Politics
8. Between Progress and the Frontier. Authority and Mob Violence in The Gonzales Inquirer at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Anne Magnussen, University of Southern Denmark
9. Resisting the Silence: The Emergence of the Danish Jewish Congregational Magazine and its Reorientation of Communal Authority
Maja Gildin Zuckerman, Stanford University
10. The Multiple Faces of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: Authority, Iconography, and Subjectivity in Modern Turkey
Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark
11. A Tradition in Need of How-To Books: The Revitalization of Traditional Rituals and Lifestyle among Smarta Brahmins of South India
Mikael Aktor, University of Southern Denmark
