Synecdoche, Aesthetics, and the Sublime Online: Or, What’s a Religious Internet Meme?

Scott Haden Church; G. Feller

DOI:10.1080/15348423.2020.1728188

Corpus ID: 213540194

Synecdoche, Aesthetics, and the Sublime Online: Or, What’s a Religious Internet Meme?

@article{Church2020SynecdocheAA,
  title={Synecdoche, Aesthetics, and the Sublime Online: Or, What’s a Religious Internet Meme?},
  author={Scott Haden Church and G. Feller},
  journal={Journal of Media and Religion},
  year={2020},
  volume={19},
  pages={12 - 23}
}

Scott Haden Church, G. Feller
Published 2020
Sociology
Journal of Media and Religion

ABSTRACT Hoping to court young people increasingly distancing themselves from institutional religious affiliation, religious organizations like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are creating and circulating aesthetic short-form videos (memes) rife with existential cinematic tropes aimed at invoking a sublime, affective viewing experience. Unlike the destabilizing cinema that inspired them, however, these religious memes do not have the luxury of equivocation. Institutional… Expand

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