The Face of the Other (Faith) as a Threat
According to Emmanuel Lévinas, the face of the other is the starting point of ethics. The following article therefore examines in which form of media representation Christians meet with the other or, more precisely, with “the faith of the other”. Across the photo reporting of migration, war, and...
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Karl Franzens Universität Graz
2022-05-01
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| description | According to Emmanuel Lévinas, the face of the other is the starting point of ethics.
The following article therefore examines in which form of media representation
Christians meet with the other or, more precisely, with “the faith of the other”. Across
the photo reporting of migration, war, and terror, it will be shown that de-subjectifying
images dominate and that the face of the other is absent. The same applies to
religious websites and social media, where biblical quotations and idyllic landscape
images predominate and people – or people’s faces – who could be a challenge to one’s
own faith hardly appear. This affects the perception of “the own” and “the foreign”,
and it does so in an even more negative way because the competence to interpret
images is not particularly well-developed in most people. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e104570a29be49d2a55873ee745cccbf2022-12-22T03:02:00ZengKarl Franzens Universität GrazJournal for Religion, Film and Media2414-02012022-05-0181435810.25364/05.8:2022.1.3The Face of the Other (Faith) as a ThreatPaganini, ClaudiaAccording to Emmanuel Lévinas, the face of the other is the starting point of ethics. The following article therefore examines in which form of media representation Christians meet with the other or, more precisely, with “the faith of the other”. Across the photo reporting of migration, war, and terror, it will be shown that de-subjectifying images dominate and that the face of the other is absent. The same applies to religious websites and social media, where biblical quotations and idyllic landscape images predominate and people – or people’s faces – who could be a challenge to one’s own faith hardly appear. This affects the perception of “the own” and “the foreign”, and it does so in an even more negative way because the competence to interpret images is not particularly well-developed in most people.https://digital.obvsg.at/jrfm/periodical/titleinfo/7696133media representationpictorial turnmigrationfilter bubbles |
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| title | The Face of the Other (Faith) as a Threat |
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