Abstract
How can the medium be addressed when it is always already saturated
in religious over-determinations and ever marked by theological concerns (such as
revelation and incarnation) while, at the same time, religion would not be practiced
and theology not be done without using some such medium? We encourage
methodological and conceptual shifts, first, from medium to mediality; second,
from religion to its partial negation (or, perhaps, partial permeation); third, from
theology to doing the theological differently. With these shifts we desire to initiate,
continue, and intensify debates, specifically between theologians and scholars
of religious studies and media theory.